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'''''Rāghava-yādavīya''''' is a short Sanskrit poem (''laghukāvya'') of 30 stanzas, composed by [[Veṅkaṭādhvarin]] in [[Kanchi]] around 1650 CE.<ref name=bronner>{{citation | year=2010 | title = Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration | author1=Yigal Bronner | publisher=Columbia University Press | isbn=978-0-231-15160-3 | pages=125, 270, 294, 318}}</ref> It is a "bidirectional" poem (''anuloma-pratiloma-akṣara-kāvya'') which narrates the story of [[Rāma]] when read forwards, and a story from [[Krishna]]'s life (that of the Pārijāta tree) when each verse is read backwards.<ref>[https://www.ifpindia.org/bookstore/pifi46/ Rāghavayādavīya par Veṇkaṭādhvarin], Institut Français de Pondichéry</ref><br />
For example, the second stanza, where both the narratives begin, describes the city where Rama was born:<ref name=Lienhard/><br />
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साकेताख्या ज्यायामासीद्या विप्रादीप्तार्याधारा । <br/><br />
पूराजीतादेवाद्याविश्वासाग्र्या सावाशारावा ॥<br />
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sāketākhyā jyāyām āsīd yā viprādīptāryādhārā /<br/><br />
pūr ājītādevādyāviśvāsāgryā sāvāśārāvā //<br />
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{{quote|"On earth [''jyāyām''] there was a city Sāketa that was illuminated by the wise (Brahmans) [''viprādīptā''] and sustained by Vaiśyas [''āryādhārā'']. The son of Aja (i.e. king [[Dasharatha]]) won [''ājītā''] it. This distinguished (city) distrusted (only) non-gods and the like [''a-deva-ādya-aviśvāsa''], and (was filled with the satisfied) sound of the eaters of sacrifices [''sāvāśārāvā''], i.e. the gods."}}<br />
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but when the syllables are read backwards, it describes Krishna's city:<ref name=Lienhard>{{cite book | last=Lienhard | first=Siegfried | title=A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit | publisher=Harrassowitz | series=A history of Indian literature: Classical Sanskrit literature | year=1984 | isbn=978-3-447-02425-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0aYeR67booC | access-date=2023-12-18 | pages=148–149}}</ref><br />
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वाराशावासाग्र्या साश्वा विद्यावादेताजीरा पू । <br/><br />
राधार्याप्ता दीप्रा विद्यासीमा या ज्याख्याता के सा ॥<br />
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vārāśāv āsāgryā sāśvā vidyāvādetājīrā pūḥ | <br/><br />
rādhāryāptā dīprā vidyāsīmā yā jyākhyātā ke sā ||<br />
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{{quote|"By the water [''ke''] near the lake [''vārāśau''] there was a distinguished city (named Dvārakā) equipped with horses, a place of (learned men) who had carried off the victory in the battle for knowledge [''vidyā-vāda-ita-āji-irā''], brilliantly [''dīprā''], (because) they had received Rādhā's lord (i.e. Krishna); (it was) the remotest frontier of knowledge and its fame widespread on earth [''jyā-khyātā'']."}}<br />
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It has been published several times<ref>{{cite book | editor=Sudesh Narang | title=Rāghavayādavīyaṃ Kāvyam | publisher=J. P. Publishing House | year=2005 | isbn=978-81-86702-32-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CehjAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-12-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | editor=Kizhattur Srinivasachari | title=Sri Raghava-Yadavīyam: | publisher=Little Flower Company | year=1966 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8w0RAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-12-18}}</ref> along with a commentary by the author himself.<ref name=bronner/> In 1972, it was published from the Institut Français d’Indologie in [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]], with the Sanskrit text edited by M. S. Narasimhacharya and a study and translation by Marie-Claude Porcher.<ref name="msnmcp">{{citation | title=Rāghavayādavīya of Veṅkaṭādhvarin | editor=M. S. Narasimhacharya and M. C. Porcher | place=Pondicherry | publisher=Institut Français d’Indologie | year=1972 | isbn=978-81-89968-58-8<br />
| url=https://archive.org/details/ranghavayadaviyavenkatadhvarin_202002/mode/2up?view=theater}}</ref><br />
All 30 stanzas are written in the ''vidyunmālā'' metre, containing 32 syllables that are each long (''guru'').<ref name=Lienhard/><br />
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==Author==<br />
The author Sri Venkatadhvari (17 century) was born at Arasanipalai near [[Kancheepuram]] and was a follower of Sri [[Vedanta Desikan]]. He had mastery in poetry and rhetoric. He had composed 14 works, the most important of them being Lakshmisahasram by composing which he got back his lost eyesight.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvyaṃ]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24315654W/Raghav_Yadaviyam_%28by_Venkatadhwari%29 Open Library]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/raghav-yadaviyam-by-Venkatadhwari/page/n3/mode/2up A 2020 edition] by Prakash Sharma, Satyajeet Kant, and Shivendra Nandan<br />
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