• Dr. Tapas Pal

It is well known that Meghdūta, A short poem of 122 verses, one of Kālidāsa’s most famous literary work. It is divided into two parts, Pūrvamegha and Uttaramegha. This lyric poetry shows how Yakṣa feel after having been exiled from Alakā. Suffering the agony of separation, Yakṣa, the lover, becomes completely love ridden and takes the help of a cloud, the Megha, address to his love message to his beloved. The graphical descriptions of nature and topographical details of ancient India have been shown in the lyric by Kālidāsa. There is lots of poetry which deal with the environmental theme from the beginning to the end. Literature can play an important role to ameliorate the environmental crisis. It can convey a message to human beings that living with nature and extracting limited resources is the only source to live in harmony. The study of Meghdūta from an ecocritical perspective beings with the depiction of landscape. It has defined the path of cloud from Rāmagiri to Alakā city through Yakṣa’s instruction to cloud. This lovely journey is representing of nature, as Himālaya, Rājahaṃsa, Kailāsa, Mountain, bird, animals, flowers, trees, lakes, forests, rivers, stars, moon, sun, clouds etc. these elements are representing the beauty of nature and physical environment. This cloud journey is representing to environment from sky to earth. Primarily, ecocriticism involves the phenomena of natural environment; it includes cloud, plants, trees, forests, lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, landscape etc. Poet has given different names of cloud as messenger, character, sky, water, wind and nature. The cloud journey from Rāmagiri to Alakā is representing to the relationship between men and nature.

Meghdūta, Kālidāsa, Alakā, Yakṣa, Pūrvamegha, Uttaramegha, Rāmagiri, Himālaya, Rājahaṃsa.

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND ENVIRONMENT IN KᾹLIDᾹSA’S MEGHADŪTA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.152-157, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901H87.pdf

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND ENVIRONMENT IN KᾹLIDᾹSA’S MEGHADŪTA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp152-157, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901H87.pdf