"સૈરન્ધ્રી"

વિનોદ જોશી

"Sairandree  the name of Draupadi, "

Before the " Agyatvash" (Period  of  unrecognized) the Pandvas and Draupadi decided that they would spent that year  entering into Matsya king Virata's service. Every pandvas  chose a profession to which they were skilled in. When Yudhishthira asked Draupadi what service she will perform in Virata's kingdom. The Draupadi told that enter into vikasa's  kingdom disguised as a sairandhri and third with the Queen to the Shudeshna as her hair dresser and if anyone asked question her she would to tell. That She was the waiting woman of Draupadi in Yudhishthira's household.

વનવાસ દરમ્યાન દ્રૌપદી સૈરંધ્રીનાં વેશમા છે, પોતે હસ્તિનાપુરની મહારાણી હોવાં છતા તેં અહી દ્રુપદરાજાની દાસી તરીકે રહેવું પડે છે. પોતાના પાંચ પાંચ પતિ હોવાં છતા તેને મળી શકાતું નથી તે વાત છે. આ સૈરંધ્રીના માધ્યમ થકી તેણે બધાં મનુષ્ય જાતની યાતના મુકી આપી છે. આપણે પણ આપણી ઓળખ ક્યાંક રજૂ કરી ન શકીએ. ક્યાંક સાવ જનરલ માનસ બનીને રહેવું પડે છે. મનુષ્ય જાતની યાતના એ કાયમ રહેવાની જ, આવી વાત આ કૃતિમા છે, મહાભારતનાં વિરાટપર્વમાંથી લીધેલ આ કથાનક પ્રકૃતિ અને સંસ્કૃતિ બન્ને વચ્ચે જઝુમટા મનુષ્યની વ્યથા બતાવી આપી છે.

The Year 2018: Sairandhree has entered Gujarat’s consciousness with all her youthful sensuality by the great poet" VINOD JOSHI"

though she is no longer the Empress of Hastinapur; cursed, she is now the maid-in-waiting to 

Queen Sudeshna in King Virata’s palace. In Joshi’s prabandha kavya, this is how she arrives in 

the evening, sangfroid: 

વિવશ સાંજ, નભ નિરાલંબ

નિસ્પંદ સમીર નિગૂઢ,

એક યૌવના નાતમુક ઉભી,

વ્યગ્રચિત સંમુઢ.

(Her face sunken, a young lady is standing, her mind agitated amidst inert, inscrutable winds 

when the evening is perplexed and the sky forlorn.) The woman who was drowning her face paused and stirred her mind amidst the dormant wind.  When the evening falls and the sky is buzzing.Not to be outdoor with this reference. Vnod joshi seems to be heralding the seance of organic unity, this phrase sustain thought the entire along with the embodiment of relation with nature.  What could happen to this young beautiful woman described by the poet as Draupadi has a routine that does not grow old.  Draupadi is the ideal woman worshiped.

સંગ- અસંગ વિચારતી, જુવે પરસ્પર નાર,

સ્ત્રીપદ સર્વાધિક હતુ, શેષ બધું ઉપચાર..

(As the two women look at each other, thinking together or solitarily, it is the ‘womanhood’ that 

remains supreme; the rest is all service.)The poet imagines that this is a gorgeous young woman from Gujarat. The garment , appearance of woman is characterized as a Gujrati women not the portrayal of Raja Ravi Varma's women.

ગગન મધ્ય ગુંજી રહ્યો હતો, સતત કોઈ ટંકાર, 

નગર વિરાટ બની ગયું, એક અકળ આકાર.

ચિતો ચડેલી નાર, નીરખે લોક સમસ્ત,

 દિશા વિસ્તરતી એટલી, સૂર્ય ન પામે અસ્ત.

Here, VINOD JOSHI celebrates the physical beauty of sairendri , Joshi lifting it up to the level of erotic sublimity  that the erotic takes it to the level of the underdeveloped.  The vinod joshi here establishes the romance of KALIDAS.  Spring with greedy flowers becomes charming.  Physical desires, but sadly, have to be endured as "maids."  In such a horrible shock, SUDESHNA'S  daughter Uttara imagines the body to be taught under her husband.  Arjun has become impotent and has transformed into BRIHNALLA.  Vinod Joshi shows young here.  He kisses

In the last seven sarga ,  joshi creats the magnificient moving audio-visual spectacle through mere words as  if to  invits  all the great MAHABHUTAS ( five great elements) in the suprame invocation in a MAHAYGN this exteram imagination engages usthought universal consciousness.

:સૈરેંન્દ્રી ઉભી રહી, અધવચ ઉંબરદવાર,

અવઢવ એને મોકલે, નહિ અંદર નહિ બહાર

Sairandharee stood between the doors.  Incredible, did not know where to go or confined to a limited mental state inside or outside A woman recognizes her independence as a freedman of relationships.  Someone's daughter? Someone's wife?  Somebody's sister ?.  There is ambiguity inside or outside.  As the poet points out, Sairandree has traveled to two different continents in Australia with his son and family. He also has to live in the vicinity of India.

 Vinod Joshi says what is the continuation of the room here when he wrote about three during March-April 2017 he had to come to India thinking that the work will be very bright, but to be proud i started to satire so in 2018 i traveled again to Australia . finally he made a supreme poem named "સૈરન્ધ્રી"

-for more better interpretation you can visit my " Gujrati" analysis of " sairandree"
Click here