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{{Infobox writer
| name = Agyeya
| image = Agyeya.jpeg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| pseudonym = Agyeya
| birth_name = Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|3|7}}
| birth_place = [[Kushinagar district|Kasia]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|4|4|1911|3|7}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| occupation = Writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and [[revolutionary]]
| citizenship =
| education =
| alma_mater ={{plainlist|
* [[Madras Christian College]] <small>(1925–1927; Intermediate)</small>
* [[Forman Christian College]] <small>(1927–1929; B.Sc.)</small>
}}
| period =
| genre =
| subject =
| movement = ''Nayi Kavita'' (New Poetry)
| notableworks ={{plainlist|
* ''[[Shekhar: Ek Jivani]]''
* ''[[Trishanku (book)|Trishanku]]''
* ''[[Angan Ke Par Dwar]]''
* ''[[Tar Saptak]]''
}}
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Santosh Malik|1940|1945|end=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Kapila Vatsyayan]]|1956|1969|end=div}}
}}
| partner =
| children =
| relatives = [[Hiranand Sastri]] (father)
| awards = {{plainlist|
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1964)
* [[Jnanpith Award]] (1978)
* [[Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings Laureates|Golden Wreath Award]] (1983)
}}
| signature = Agyeya signature.jpg
}}

'''Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan''' (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his [[pen name]] '''Agyeya''' (also transliterated '''Ajneya''', meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and [[revolutionary]] in [[Hindi]] language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the ''Prayogavaad'' (experimentalism) movement in modern [[Hindi literature]].

Son of a renowned archaeologist [[Hiranand Sastri]], Agyeya was born in Kasia, a small town near [[Kushinagar]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He took active part in the Indian freedom struggle and spent several years in prison for his revolutionary activities against British colonial rule.

He edited the ''[[Tar Saptak|Saptak]]'' series which gave rise to a new trends in Hindi poetry, known as ''Nayi Kavita''. He edited several literary journals, and launched his own Hindi language weekly ''[[Dinaman]]'', which set new standard and trends in [[Hindi media|Hindi journalism]]. Agyeya translated some of his own works, as well as works of some other Indian authors to English. He also translated some books of world literature into Hindi.

Agyeya was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1964), [[Jnanpith Award]] (1978) and the internationally reputed [[Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings Laureates|Golden Wreath Award]] for poetry.

==Early life and education==
Agyeya was born as Sachchidananda Vatsyayan in [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Brahmin]] family on 7 March 1911 in an archaeological camp near Kasia, [[Kushinagar district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]], where his father, Hiranand Sastri, an [[archaeologist]], was positioned for an excavation. His mother was Vyantidevi (d. 1924) who was not much educated. Hiranand Sastri and Vyantidevi had 10 children, of whom Agyeya was the fourth. Agyeya spent his early childhood in [[Lucknow]] (1911–1915). Due to his father's professional appointment at various places, he had to shift to various places including [[Srinagar]] and [[Jammu]] (1915–1919), [[Patna]] (1920), [[Nalanda]] (1921) and the [[Ootacamund]] and [[Kotagiri]] (1921–1925). Due to this peripatetic lifestyle, Agyeya came into contact with different [[Languages of South Asia|Indian languages]] and [[Culture of India|cultures]]. His father, a scholar in [[Sanskrit]], encouraged him to study [[Hindi]] and taught him some basic English. He was taught Sanskrit and [[Persian language|Persian]] by [[Pandit]] and [[Maulavi]] in Jammu.<ref name="Wagner-Egelhaaf2019">{{cite book|last=Malinar|first=Angelika|editor-last=Wagner-Egelhaaf|editor-first=Martina|title=Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction|url=https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/181591|series=De Gruyter Handbook|year=2019|publisher=De Gruyter|location=Berlin, Boston|isbn=978-3-11-038148-1|chapter=Chapter 34 : Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan ["Ajneya"/"Agyeya" ('Unknowable')]|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110279818/9783110279818-145/9783110279818-145.xml|pages=1762–1776}} {{closed access}}</ref><ref name="Datta1987">{{cite book|editor-last=Datta|editor-first=Amaresh|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA103|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=103–104}}</ref><ref name="Mahfil1965">{{cite journal|title=S. H. Vatsyayan: A Chronology|journal=Mahfil|year=1965|volume=2|issue=1|publisher=Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University|pages=1–2|jstor=43644819}} {{closed access}}</ref><ref name="Nair2000">{{cite thesis|last=Nair|first=Sheeba A|title=अज्ञेय के उपन्यासों में वैयत्त्किकता|trans-title=Individuality in the Novels of Agyeya|language=hi|type=PHD thesis|year=2000|publisher=[[University of Kerala]]|location=Thiruvananthapuram|page=2–5|chapter=Chapter 1: Agyeya : Life and Works|chapter-url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/160771/5/05_chapter%201.pdf|hdl=10603/160771|via=[[Shodhganga]]}}</ref>

[[File:FCC-in-1930.jpg|thumb|Forman Christian College in 1930; where Agyeya studied B.Sc]]
After passing his [[matriculation]] in 1925 from the [[University of Punjab]], Agyeya moved to [[Madras]], joined the [[Madras Christian College]], and did Intermediate in Science in 1927, studying mathematics, physics and chemistry. In the same year, he joined the [[Forman Christian College]] in [[Lahore]], where he studied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English, and received a Bachelor of Science in 1929, standing first in a class. Thereafter he enrolled for an M.A. in English, but dropped out, and joined the [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Army]] (HSRA), a revolutionary organisation, with a view to fight for [[Indian independence movement]], and participated in rebellious activities against the British colonial government. In November 1930, he was arrested on account of his involvement in the attempt to help [[Bhagat Singh]], a socialist revolutionary and leader of HSRA, to escape from jail in 1929. He was then sentenced on charge of [[sedition]] against British rule in India. He spent the next four years in jail in Lahore, Delhi and Amritsar. During these prison days, he started writing short stories, poems and the first draft of his novel ''[[Shekhar: Ek Jivani]]''.<ref name="Wagner-Egelhaaf2019"/><ref name="Mahfil1965"/><ref name="Nair2000"/>


He was associated with the Progressive Writers Association (PWA) and, in 1942, he organised the All India Anti-Fascist Convention. During [[World War II]] in 1942, he joined the Indian army and was sent to the Kohima Front as a combatant officer. He left the army in 1946. He stayed at [[Meerut]] (Uttar Pradesh) for sometime and remained active in local literary groups. During this period, he published several translations into English of other writers, and a collection of his own poems, ''Prison Days and Other Poems''.<ref name="Mahfil1965"/>

Agyeya married Santosh Malik in 1940. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1945. He married [[Kapila Vatsyayan]] ([[née]] Malik) on 7 July 1956. They separated in 1969.<ref name="SonavaneRaṇasubhe1994">{{cite book|last1=Sonavane|first1=Chandrabhanu Sitaram|last2=Raṇasubhe|first2=Sūryanārāyaṇa|title=कहानीकार अज्ञेय : संदर्भ और प्रकृति|script-title=hi:Kahānikāra Ajñeya : Sandarbha aura Prakr̥ti|trans-title=Critical study of the fictional works of Agyeya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaVjAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Vikasa Prakashan|language=hi|page=163|oclc=31899798}}</ref><ref name="Trivedi2011">{{cite journal|last=Trivedi|first=Harish|title=Agyeya — and his "Shekhar" The Second Greatest Novel in Hindi?|date=January–February 2011|journal=[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]|volume=55|issue=1|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=81|jstor=23341824}}</ref> He died on 4 April 1987, aged 76, in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Kumar 2016">{{cite news | last=Kumar | first=Kuldeep | title=A rebel in life and work | newspaper=The Hindu | date=18 March 2016 | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-rebel-in-life-and-work/article8370696.ece | access-date=15 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710150959/https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-rebel-in-life-and-work/article8370696.ece|archive-date=10 July 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> He was cremated at [[Nigambodh Ghat]].<ref name="Nair2000"/>

==Career==
After his release from jail in 1934, Agyeya worked as a journalist in [[Calcutta]], and from 1939 for [[All India Radio]].<ref name="Wagner-Egelhaaf2019"/>

Agyeya edited ''Sainik'' from Agra (1936–1937), ''Vishal Bharat'' from Calcutta (1937–1939), ''Prateek'' (1947)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan|encyclopedia=Contemporary Authors Online|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000124072/BIC?sid=Bharatpedia|year=2003|location=Detroit, MI|publisher=Gale}} {{closed access}}</ref> and ''Naya Prateek'' (1973) respectively from Allahabad and New Delhi. In English. he edited ''Vak'' (1951). He served as an editor of [[Jayprakash Narayan]]'s ''Everyman's Weekly'' (1973–1974) and editor-in-chief of Hindi daily ''[[Navbharat Times]]'' (1977–1980) of the Times of India Group.

He travelled to Japan in 1957–58, where he learned about Zen Buddhism which influenced him and his writing style.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} In 1961, he joined the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as a visiting lecturer in Indian Literature and Civilization, and remained there until June 1964.<ref name="Mahfil1965"/>

In 1965, he returned to India and became Founder Editor of the newsweekly ''[[Dinaman]]'' of the Times of India Group. When the members of the [[Hungry generation]] or ''Bhookhi Peerhi'' movement were arrested and prosecuted for their anti-establishment writings, Agyeya through ''Dinmaan'' relentlessly supported the young literary group of Culcutta till they were exonerated. His dispatches on [[Bihar]]'s famous famine are considered milestones in pro-people reporting.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

He remained in India till 1968, before embarking on a trip to Europe. In 1969 he returned to [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] as Regents Professor, and continued there until June 1970. In 1976, he had an 8-month stint at [[Heidelberg University]], as a visiting professor. Later he joined [[University of Jodhpur]], Rajasthan as Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

== Works ==
During the four years in prison, Agyeya started writing short stories and published them in ''[[Hans (magazine)|Hans]]'', edited by [[Premchand]]. He also started writing the first draft of his autobiographical novel ''Shekhar: Ek Jivani'', followed by its second and third draft. His first collection of poems, ''Bhagnadutta'', appeared in 1933. After his release from the jail, he published his first short story collection, ''Vipathga'', in 1937, and in 1941, he published the first volume of ''Shekhar: Ek Jivani'', followed by the second volume in 1944. Its third volume, though announced, was never published.<ref name="Wagner-Egelhaaf2019"/><ref name="Mahfil1965"/><ref name=Interview1983>{{cite journal|author1=Ajneya|author2=Kumar, Sharat|author3=Sen, Geeti|title=Interview with Ajneya (S.H. Vatsyayan)|journal=India International Centre Quarterly|date=December 1983|volume=10|issue=4|publisher=India International Centre|page=528|jstor=23001392}} {{closed access}}</ref>

In 1943, he edited and published ''Tar Saptak'', a collection of poems by seven young writers, whose poems were not published before. Considered the first anthology of modern Hindi poetry and a milestone in the history of Hindi literature, ''Tar Saptak'' gave rise to the ''Prayogvad'' ([[Experimental literature|Experimentalism]]) in Hindi poetry,<ref name="Mahfil1965"/><ref name="Singh2007">{{cite book|last=Sinh|first=Bachchan|title=आधुनिक हिन्दी साहित्य का इतिहास|script-title=hi:Aadhunik Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas|trans-title=History of Modern Hindi Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLhrPmkIvR4C&pg=PT252|language=hi|year=2007|publisher=Lokbharti Prakashan|location=Ilahabad|isbn=978-81-8031-101-7|page=256}}</ref> and established a new trends Hindi poetry, known as ''Nayi Kavita'' (New Poetry).<ref name="KMGeorge1997">{{cite book|last=Acharya|first=Nand Kishore|author-link=Nand Kishore Acharya|editor-last=George|editor-first=K. M.|editor-link=K. M. George (writer)|chapter=Amgan Ke Par Dvara|title=Masterpieces of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXFOAAAAYAAJ|volume=1|year=1997|publisher=[[National Book Trust]]|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-237-1978-7|page=375}}</ref><ref name="Satyendra2000">{{cite book|last=Satyendra|first=Kush|title=Dictionary of Hindu Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcAwrV60cpAC&pg=PA132|year=2000|publisher=Sarup & Sons|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7625-159-4|pages=132–133}}</ref>

;Poetry collections:
* Bhagndoot (1933)
* Chinta (1942)
* Ityalam (1946)
* Hari ghaas par kshan-bhar (1949)
* Baawra aheri (1954)
* Indradhanu raunde hue ye (1957)
* Ari o karuna prabhamaya (1959)
* Angan Ke Par Dwar (1961)
* Poorva (1965)
* Sunahale Shaivaal (1965)
* Kitni naavon mein kitni baar (1967)
* Kyonki main usei jaanta hoon (1969)
* Saagar-mudra (1970)
* Pahle main sannata bunta hoon (1973)
* Mahavriksha ke neeche (1977)
* Nadi ki baank par chhaya (1982)
* Sadanira-1 (1986)
* Sadanira-2 (1986)
* Aisa koi ghar aapne dekha hai (1986)
* Maruthal (1995)
* Sarjana ke kshan (Selection)
* Thaur thikaane (Handwritten, circulated xeroxed)
* Karaawas ke din (Trans. from English by Uday Shankar Shrivastava)
* Kavishri ( Ed. Shiyaram Sharan Gupt)
* Aaj ke lokpriy kavi (Ed. Vidya Niwas Mishra)
* Kaavya-stabak ( Ed by Vidya Niwas Mishra & Ramesh Chandra Shah)
* Sannate ka chhand (Ed by [[Ashok Vajpeyi]])
* Ajneya: Sanklit kavitayen (Ed by Namvar Singh)

Novels:
* [[Shekhar: Ek Jivani|Shekhar: Ek Jeevani I]] (1941)
* Shekhar: Ek Jeevani II (1944)
* Shekhar: Ek Jeevni III (Unpublished)
* Nadi ke dweep (1952)
* Apne-apne ajnabi (1961)
* Barahkhambha (co-writer, 1987)
* Chhaya mekhal (Incomplete, 2000)
* Beenu bhagat (Incomplete, 2000)

Stories [[anthology|anthologies]]:
* Vipathga (1937)
* Parmpara (1944)
* Kothri ki baat (1945)
* Sharnaarthi (1948)
* Jaydol (1951)
* Amarvallari tatha anya kahaniyan(1954)
* Kadiayan tatha anya kahaniyan (1957)
* Acchute phool tatha anya kahaniyan (1960)
* Ye tere pratiroop (1961)
* Jigyasa tatha anya kahaniyan (1965)
* Meri priy kahaniyan (Selection, 2004)
* Chhorra hua rasta (Sampoorn kahanitan-1, 1975)
* Lautti pagdandiyan (Sampoorn kahaniyan-2, 1975)
* Sampoorn Kahaniyan (2005)
* Adam Ki diary (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya, 2002)

Play:
* Uttar Priyadarshi

Travelogue:
* Are Yayavar Rahega Yaad (1953)
* Kirnon ki khoj mein (Selection, 1955)
* Ek Boond Sahsa Uchhli (1960)

Criticism:
* [[Trishanku (book)|Trishanku]]
* Hindi sahitya: Ek adhunik paridrishya
* Atmanepad
* Aatmparak
* Aalwaal
* Likhi kagad kore
* Jog likhi
* Adyatan
* Samvatsar
* Smriti ke paridrishya
* Srot aur setu
* Vyakti aur vyavastha
* Yug-sandhiyon par
* Dhaar aur kinaare
* Bhartiya kala drishti
* Smritichhanda
* Kendra aur paridhi
* Srijan: kyon air kaise
* Kavi-Nikash
* Kavi-drishti (Prefaces)
* Tadbhav (Selection by [[Ashok Vajpeyi]])
* Lekhak ka Dayittva (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya)
* Khule Mein Khada Ped (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya)

Light Essyas:
* Sab rang
* Sab rang aur kuchh raag
* Kahan hai dwaraka
* Chhaya ka jangal

Diary:
* Bhavanti
* Antara
* Shaswati
* Shesha
* Kaviman (Ed by Ila Dalmia Koirala)

Memoirs:
* Smriti-lekha
* Smriti ke galiyaron se
* Main kyun likhta hoon

Edited:
* Tar Saptak
* Doosra Saptak
* Teesra Saptak
* Chautha Saptak
* Pushkarini
* Naye ekanki
* Nehru abhinandan granth (co-editor)
* Roopambara (Sumitrnandan Pant abhinandan granth)
* Homvati smarak granth
* Sarjan aur sampreshan
* Sahitya ka parivesh
* Sahity aur samaj parivartan
* Samajik yatharth aur katha-bhasha
* Samkaleen kavita mein chhand
* Bhavishya aur sahitya
* Indian Poetic Tradition (With Vidya Niwas Mishra and Leonard Nathan)

Introducing:
* Naye Sahitya Srishta-1 Raghuveer Sahay: Seedihiyon par dhoop mein
* Naye Sahitya Srishta-2 Sarveshawar Dayal Saxena: Kaath ki ghantiyan
* Naye Sahitya Srishta-3 Ajit Kumar: Ankit hone do
* Naye Sahitya Srishta-4 Shanti Mehrotra

Conversations:
* Aparoksh, Ramesh Chandra Shah & others
* Rachna: Kyon aur kinke beech, Sharad Kumar, Geeti Sen & Others
* Agyeya Apne bare mein (AIR Archives), Raghuveer Sahay & Gopal Das
* Kavi Nayak Ajneya, Ila Dalmia & Neelima Mathur

In English:
* Prison days and other poems (Poetry)
* A sense of time (Essays)

Selection (general):
Sanchayita (Ed Nand Kishore Acharya)

Translations:
* Shrikant (Sharat Chandra, from Bengali, 1944)
* Gora (Rabindranath Thakur, from Bengali)
* Raja (Rabindranath Thakur, from Bengali)
* Vivekanand (With Raghuvir Sahay, from Bengali)
* The resignation (Jainendra Kumar, into English)
* The seventh horse of the sun (Dharmveer Bharti, into English)
* The Silent waters (Poems of Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, in 'Thought')
* Vazir ka Feela (Ivo Andric, from English)
* Mahayatra ([[Pär Lagerkvist]]'s trilogy, from English)

Self-translated works:
* Islands in the stream (Nadi ke dweep, into English)
* To each his stranger (Apne apne ajnabi, into English)
* The unmastered lute and other poems (Asadhya Veena and other poems into English, Ed by Pritish Nandy)
* The revolving rock and other poems (Chakrant Shila and other poems into English, Ed Pritish Nandy)
* First Person, Second Person (Poems, into English with [[Leonard Nathan]])
* Signs and silences (Poems, into English with Leonard Nathan)
* Nilambari (Poems, into English)
* Truculent clay (Bhavanti, into English with Manas Mukul Das)
* Preparing the ground (Antara, into English with Manas Mukul Das)

Translations in other languages:
(Indian languages list too long)

* German: Sekh Ktoratien (By Lothar Lutze)
* : Stand-orte (By Lothar Lutze)
* Swedish : Den arket (By orten Al Bud)
* Servo-Croatian: Catoetien
* : prvo liche drugo liche
* :Vsak ima svoyega tuicha (By Tregoslav Andrich)

Films on Ajneya:
* Sarswat Van Ka Bavra Aheri, Producer Durgavati Singh, Doordarshan, New Delhi
* Sannate ka Chhand, Dir. Pramod & Neelima Mathur, Vatsal Nidhi, New Delhi
* Deep Akela, Dir. Pramod Mathur, MGAHVV, Wardha
* Kavi Bharti, [[Bharat Bhawan]], Bhopal

== Reception ==
Agyeya was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1964 for his collection of poems ''[[Angan Ke Par Dwar]]'', and the Jnanpith Award in 1978 for ''Kitni Naavon Mein Kitni Baar''.<ref>[http://jnanpith.net/page/jnanpith-laureates Jnanpith Laureates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218122436/http://www.jnanpith.net/page/jnanpith-laureates |date=18 February 2012 }} [[Jnanapith Trust|Bharatiya Jnanpith]] website.</ref> He was also awarded the Bharatbharati Award and the Golden Wreath Award for poetry in 1983.<ref>[http://www.svp.org.mk/ Golden Wreath Award]</ref>

Agyeya is considered to be one of the most influential Hindi writers of the 20th century and is seen as the founder of ādhuniktā (modernism) in Hindi literature.<ref name="Wagner-Egelhaaf2019"/> He is considered 'the most westernised' among the Hindi writers between the 1940s and the 1960s.<ref name="Jedamski2009">{{cite book|last=Bruijn|first=Thomas De|editor-last=Jedamski|editor-first=Doris|title=Chewing Over the West: Occidental Narratives in Non-Western Readings|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3DnMNOwuygC&pg=PA232|year=2009|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam|isbn=978-90-420-2783-1|page=232|chapter=Under Indian Eyes: Characterization an Dialogism in Modern Hindi Fiction}}</ref> He was often criticised for his excessive use of intellectualism and individualism in his writings.<ref name="Miążek2015">{{cite journal|last1=Miążek|first1=Teresa|title="...kahāniyā͂ ākhir bantῑ kaise hai͂?!" ("…how, after all, do stories originate?!"). The Clash between Indian and Western Literary Traditions in Ajñeya's Short Stories|journal=Cracow Indological Studies|volume=17|issue=17|year=2015|pages=169–211|issn=1732-0917|doi=10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.10|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The scholar Sushil Kumar Phull calls Agyeya an 'intellectual giant' and 'pundit of language' (master of language), and compares him with English poet [[Robert Browning]] for his obscure and condense language which he used in his poetry.<ref name="Phull1981">{{cite journal|last=Phull|first=Sushil Kumar|title=Agyeya: A Moving Force of Modern Hindi Literature|journal=[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]|date=September–October 1981|volume=24|issue=5|pages=164–168|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|jstor=23331095}} {{closed access}}</ref>

==Dramatic productions==
His verse play ''Uttar Priyadarshi'', about the redemption of King Ashoka was first staged in 1966 at Triveni open-air theatre in Delhi in presence of the writer. Later it was adapted to Manipuri, by theatre director, [[Ratan Thiyam]] in 1996, and since been performed by his group, in various parts of the world.<ref name=ba>[http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_00/dec00/rr_rev_crt_1000.htm Review: Uttarpriyadarshi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205221756/http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_00/dec00/rr_rev_crt_1000.htm |date=5 February 2012 }} by Renee Renouf, ''ballet magazine'', December 2000,</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Next Wave Festival Review; In Stirring Ritual Steps, Past and Present Unfold|author=Margo Jefferson|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?pagewanted=print&res=990ce6dc1131f934a15753c1a9669c8b63 |newspaper=New York Times |date=27 October 2000 }}</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Sannate ka Chhand, Anand Kumar Singh, KA Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya: Kathakaar Aur Vicharak, by Vijay Mohan Singh, Parijat Prakashan, Patna
* Ajneya aur Adhunik Racna ki Samasya, by Ramswarup Chaturvedi, Lokbharti, Allahabad
* Ajneya aur Unka Sahitya, by Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari. National Publishing House, New Delhi
* Ajneya: Ek Adhyayan, by Bholabhai Patel, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya: Van ka Chhand, by Vidya Niwas Mishra, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya ki Kavya Titirsha, by Nand Kishore Acharya, Vagdevi Prakashan, Bikaner
* Adhunik Hindi Kavya mein Vyaktittva, Ajneya ke Vishesh Sandarbha mein, by Ramkamal Rai, Lokbharti, Allahabad
* Shikhar Se Sagar Tak(Biography), by Ram Kamal Rai, National Publishing House, New Delhi
* Ajneya Aur Unka Katha Sahitya, by Gopal Rai, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya Ki Kavita, by Chandrakant Bandivadekar, Vinod Pustak Mandir, Agra
* Ajnyeya: Vichar ka Swaraj, by Krishna Dutt Paliwal, Pratibha Pratishthan, New Delhi
* Ajneya: Kavi-karm ka Sankat, by Krishna Dutt Paliwal, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya ka Katha-sahitya, A. Arvindakshan, Kochin
* Ajneya ka Antahprakriya Sahitya, by Mathuresh Nandan Kulshreshtha, Chitralekha Prakashan, Allahabad
* Ajneya aur Poorvottar Bharat, Ed Rita Rani Paliwal, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Vagarth ka Vaibhav, by Ramesh Chandra Shah, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* The Quest of Ajneya, by Roger Hardham Hooker. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, New Delhi
* Alochak Ajneya ki Upasthiti, Krishna Dutt Paliwal, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Kavi Ajneya ki Saundarya Chetna, by Chandraprabha Baluja, Sahitya Prakashan, Meerut
* Ajneya: Kavya Rachana ki Visheshtayein, by Krishna Sinha. Bihar Hindi Granth Akademi, Patna
* Ajneya (Monograph), by Ramesh Chandra Shah, Sahitya Akedemi, New Delhi
* Ajneya by Prabhakar Machve, Rajpal & Sons, Delhi
* Ajneya ki Itihas-drishti, by Shankar Sharan, Yash Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya ka Sansar, Ed by Ashok Vajpeyi, Pooroday Prakashan, New Delhi
* Chhayavad ke Pariprekshya mein Ajneya ka Kavya, by Kamal Kumar, New Delhi
* Ajneya ki Kavita: Parampara aur Prayog, by Ramesh Rishikalp, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya: Kuchh Rang Kuchh Raag, by Srilal Shukl, Prabhat Prakashan, New Delhi
* Ajneya Vol.1 to Vol.5, Anthologies Ed by Harish Trivedi/ KD Paliwal, Roopa & Co., New Delhi
* Apne Apne Ajneya, Vol.I & Vol.II, Ed by Om Thanvi, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi

==External links==
*[https://penguin.co.in/book_author/agyeya/ Agyeya] at [[Penguin India]]
*[http://www.gadyakosh.org/gk/अज्ञेय Agyeya] at {{ill|Gadya Kosh|hi|गद्य कोश}}
*[https://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=अज्ञेय Agyeya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103170448/http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9E%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AF |date=3 November 2016 }} at {{ill|Kavita Kosh|hi|कविता कोश}}
*[http://www.bharatdarshan.co.nz/author-profile/7/agyeya.html Agyeya's biography] at {{ill|Bharat Darshan|hi|भारत दर्शन}}

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