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Muna Madan (Nepali: मुनामदन) is a 1936 Nepali-language episodic love poem written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. It is about Madan, newly married to Muna, who leaves for Lhasa in Tibet to make his fortune, despite protests from his wife.
Departing from the Sanskrit tradition that dominated the Nepali literary scene at the time, and being inspired by the Newar language ballad song Ji Waya La Lachhi Maduni, he wrote Muna Madan (Nepali: मुनामदन) (1930), a long narrative poem in a popular Jhyaure bhaka (Nepali: झ्याउरे भाका) folk tune.
Nov 21, 2017 · In Nepal every school boy knows the name Laxmi Devkota (1909-59), author of the short Napelese epic Muna Madan. All over Himalaya his works are revered as classics, yet in Europe and the West his folk inspired narrative poems remain largely unknown.
Departing from the Sanskrit tradition that dominated Nepali literary scene, he wrote मुनामदन i.e. Muna Madan (1930), a long narrative poem in popular "jhyaure" folk meter. The book received immediate recognition from the Ranas who ruled Nepal at that time.
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Muna Madan follows the life of Madan, a Chhetri man from Kathmandu who leaves Muna, his wife, to go to Lhasato earn a fortune. He is cautioned against leaving by both Muna and his elderly mother, but he decides to leave anyway. While he initially intends to spend just a few weeks in Lhasa, he spends a longer time there, becoming entranced by the ci...
Before Muna Madan, Devkota had primarily been influenced by the English Romantics, but with this poem, he took a quintessentially Nepali folk tradition as his inspiration, the jhyaure meter. Devkota was reportedly was inspired to write a poem in jhyaure by the singing of women plating rice in the fields during the Nepali month of Asar. He chose to ...
Madan – A Chhetri man from Kathmandu who goes to Lhasato earn money.Muna – Madan's newly married wife.Aama – Madan's motherUnnamed Tibetan who saves Madan's lifeAt the heart of the poem is the relationship between Madan and Muna, hence the title of the play. While ostensibly a love poem, much of the narrative follows Madan on his journey to Lhasa and back. The overall theme of the poem is that the pursuit of material wealth can have serious consequences and that riches are of no use when there is no one to...
Muna Madan is among Devkota's most popular and most accessible works. It is regularly studied in schools as an introduction to modern Nepali poetry and remains a best-seller for its publisher, Sajha Prakashan. It's impact on Nepali language and culture is perhaps second to none, with many rhyming couplets entering the Nepali vernacular as proverbs....
The poem has been adapted into a movie of the same name. The film was directed by Gyanendra Deuja, starring Aviyana Dhakal and Usha Poudel in the role of Muna. Muna Madan was Nepal's official submission for the 2004 Academy Awards.
[Muna] What a nightmare! A buffalo dragged me down! I fell in mud, mother, the darkest buffalo dragged me down. [Madan's mother] Come, darling, don't shiver with fear, I will take all the ill that comes to you upon my head, don't shake. [Muna] My eyelids quiver, my heart is pain, a shadow of evil has come into our home. Perhaps he has no time,
Jul 21, 2024 · One of the most admired works in Nepali literature, Muna madan is an episodic poem, a short epic narrative by the Nepalese poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota. Just before his death in 1959, the poet made his famous statement, "It's alright if all of my works are burned, except for Muna Madan."
