''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' (; ) is a 1961 poetry collection by Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, generally known by his pen-name, Agyeya. The book received the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1964.

Content

The poems of the book were written during the period 1959 to 1961. The poems of the book is divided into three parts; ''Antah Salila'', ''Chakrant Shila'' and ''Asadhya Vina'' (''The Unmastered Lute''). ''Antah Salila'' contains 18 poems. ''Chakrant Shila'' has 27 poems, majorly written with neo-mystical theme. The last part, ''Asadhya Vina'', contains a long poem by the same title. Agyeya heavily used ''

Tadbhava (Sanskrit: तद्भव, , lit. "arising from that") is the Sanskrit word for one of three etymological classes defined by native grammarians of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, alongside tatsama and deśi words. at pp. 67-69. A "tadbhava" is ...

'' words (words adopted from

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), avoiding ''

Tatsama Tatsama ( , lit. 'same as that') are Sanskrit loanwords in modern Indo-Aryan languages like Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Hindi, Gujarati, and Sinhala and in Dravidian languages like Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. They generally ...

'' words (words borrowed from Sanskrit with modified

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). ''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' played decisive role in bringing to the light the creative possibilities of the ''Tadbhava'' vocabulary.

Reception

''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. It was translated into Gujarati by Bholabhai Patel as ''Anganani Par Dwar'' (2002). The critic Nand Kishore Acharya calls ''Asadhya Vina'' a 'culmination' of Agyeya's

poetics Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly. Poetics is distinguished from hermeneu ...

and

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References

External links

* * Works by Agyeya 1961 poetry books Hindi poetry collections 20th-century Indian books Indian poetry collections Sahitya Akademi Award–winning works {{India-lit-stub