Sri Raghava Yadhaveeyam

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Rāghava-yādavīya is a short Sanskrit poem (laghukāvya) of 30 stanzas, composed by Veṅkaṭādhvarin in Kanchi around 1650 CE.{{citation | year=2010 | title = Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration | author1=Yigal Bronner | publisher=Columbia University Press | isbn=978-0-231-15160-3 | pages=125, 270, 294, 318}} It is a "bidirectional" poem (anuloma-pratiloma-akṣara-kāvya) which narrates the story of Rāma when read forwards, and a story from Krishna's life (that of the Pārijāta tree) when each verse is read backwards.[https://www.ifpindia.org/bookstore/pifi46/ Rāghavayādavīya par Veṇkaṭādhvarin], Institut Français de Pondichéry

For example, the second stanza, where both the narratives begin, describes the city where Rama was born:

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साकेताख्या ज्यायामासीद्या विप्रादीप्तार्याधारा ।

पूराजीतादेवाद्याविश्वासाग्र्या सावाशारावा ॥

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sāketākhyā jyāyām āsīd yā viprādīptāryādhārā /

pūr ājītādevādyāviśvāsāgryā sāvāśārāvā //

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{{quote|"On earth [jyāyām] there was a city Sāketa that was illuminated by the wise (Brahmans) [viprādīptā] and sustained by Vaiśyas [āryādhārā]. The son of Aja (i.e. king Dasharatha) won [ājītā] it. This distinguished (city) distrusted (only) non-gods and the like [a-deva-ādya-aviśvāsa], and (was filled with the satisfied) sound of the eaters of sacrifices [sāvāśārāvā], i.e. the gods."}}

but when the syllables are read backwards, it describes Krishna's city:{{cite book | last=Lienhard | first=Siegfried | title=A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit | publisher=Harrassowitz | series=A history of Indian literature: Classical Sanskrit literature | year=1984 | isbn=978-3-447-02425-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0aYeR67booC | access-date=2023-12-18 | pages=148–149}}

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वाराशावासाग्र्या साश्वा विद्यावादेताजीरा पू ।

राधार्याप्ता दीप्रा विद्यासीमा या ज्याख्याता के सा ॥

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vārāśāv āsāgryā sāśvā vidyāvādetājīrā pūḥ |

rādhāryāptā dīprā vidyāsīmā yā jyākhyātā ke sā ||

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{{quote|"By the water [ke] near the lake [vārāśau] there was a distinguished city (named Dvārakā) equipped with horses, a place of (learned men) who had carried off the victory in the battle for knowledge [vidyā-vāda-ita-āji-irā], brilliantly [dīprā], (because) they had received Rādhā's lord (i.e. Krishna); (it was) the remotest frontier of knowledge and its fame widespread on earth [jyā-khyātā]."}}

It has been published several times{{cite book | editor=Sudesh Narang | title=Rāghavayādavīyaṃ Kāvyam | publisher=J. P. Publishing House | year=2005 | isbn=978-81-86702-32-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CehjAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-12-18}}{{cite book | editor=Kizhattur Srinivasachari | title=Sri Raghava-Yadavīyam: | publisher=Little Flower Company | year=1966 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8w0RAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-12-18}} along with a commentary by the author himself. In 1972, it was published from the Institut Français d’Indologie in Pondicherry, with the Sanskrit text edited by M. S. Narasimhacharya and a study and translation by Marie-Claude Porcher.{{citation | title=Rāghavayādavīya of Veṅkaṭādhvarin | editor=M. S. Narasimhacharya and M. C. Porcher | place=Pondicherry | publisher=Institut Français d’Indologie | year=1972 | isbn=978-81-89968-58-8

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All 30 stanzas are written in the vidyunmālā metre, containing 32 syllables that are each long (guru).