Tarun Tapasi
Nepali poem by Lekhnath Paudyal
Tarun Tapasi (Nepali: तरुण तपसी, romanized: Taruṇa Tapasī, lit. 'The Young Ascetic') is a 1953 Nepali epic by Lekhnath Paudyal. It was published in 1953 by Sajha Prakashan. The epic is divided into 19 cantos and is written in Shikharini chhanda (meter). The poet called his epic a navya-kavya (modern type of poem), a new epic instead of maha-kavya (classical genre of epic).
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The epic is a lengthy, narrative poem. The epic begins with a poet who takes a rest under a tree in a chautari in evening time. The poet recently lost his wife and is grief-stricken. The poet decides to write something, but it becomes dark. A sage appears before him who represents the soul of the tree. The sage delivers a homily to the poet as the tree who has been rooted in a single place and has seen the seasons change.
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