![]() ![]() ![]() It roughly translates to: “It’s no ordinary matter that your flowing tresses is now a noose for the Kauravas.” The title of Moily’s epic echoes the same motif: ‘ Samanyame pEl bhavath kasha pasha prapancham ”. ![]() In one context, Bhima addresses Draupadi and poses a rhetorical question: “ Mahabharata by Pampa, the 10-century Kannada poet. The title of the work is a variation of the famous line in the re-telling of the Since the epic is centred upon Draupadi, we can first consider her characterisation itself. The work, spread over five ‘books’ and 36 sections, runs into, roughly, 12,000 lines and the work as a whole is centred on Draupadi and her indomitable creative/ destructive will. The entire epic is narrated in first person, as an extended monologue of Draupadi. Mahabharata from Draupadi’s point of view. Sirimudi Parikrama is a re-telling of the Ramayana from an omniscient point of view, Mahanveshanam is a new interpretation of the Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam won the prestigious ‘Moortidevi’ Award in 2009 Veerappa Moily is an established poet-novelist, whose ![]()
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