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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Dhoyin''' or '''Dhoyī''' was a 12th century [[Sanskrit]]-language poet who composed the ''[[Pavanadūta]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Siegfried Lienhard |title=A History of Classical Poetry: Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit |series=A History of Indian Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0aYeR67booC |year=1984 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-02425-9 |page=18 }}</ref> He was a court poet of the [[Sena dynasty|Sena]] king [[Lakshmana Sena]], who ruled [[Gaur, West Bengal|Gauda]] in what is now [[Bengal]].<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Dhoyi was born in a Tantuvaya (weaver) caste family from [[Nabadwip]], according to [[Niharranjan Ray]]; Whereas according to PN Chopra he was a [[Baidya]]. He is sometimes referred as Dhoyi Kaviraj. He was one of the five gems of Sanskrit scholars, which was mentioned at the court of Lakshmana Sena.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ray |first=Niharranjan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEBuAAAAMAAJ |title=History of the Bengali People: Ancient Period |date=1994 |publisher=Orient Longman |isbn=978-0-86311-378-9 |pages=223 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Chopra|first=Pran Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAtuAAAAMAAJ|title=Religions and Communities of India|publisher=East-West Publications|year=1982|isbn=9780856920813|page=79|quote=The Baidyas retained among their group not only rajas and maharajas and powerful zamindars (landlords) but also scholars of great distinction such as the five gems at the court of Lakshman Sena, two of whom were Jayadeva, the famous composer of the Gita Govinda and Dhoyee Kaviraj.}}</ref><br />
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== Style ==<br />
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The theme of all messenger poems is ''viraha'', separation in love, and allusions to romance are never far away. Despite sharing [[Kālidāsa]]'s use of conventional romantic motif, Dhoyin’s messenger poem was much more than a mere pastiche of the Meghadūta. Dhoyin devoted nearly half of his work (48 out of 104 stanzas) to describing the wind’s journey from Sandal mountain in the south to King Lakshmana’s palace at Vijayapura in Bengal. He spends a long time on the message (38 stanzas) in which the lovelorn condition of Kuvalayavatī and the wonderful qualities of the king are described in detail.<br />
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Dhoyin had aims beyond the expression of [[rasa (aesthetics)|rasa]], aesthetic sentiment, which is traditionally the sole purpose of [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit poetry]]. He devoted a greater proportion of his poem to the message because so he could pursue his aims more effectively. The Pavanadūta is similar in style to [[Kālidāsa]]'s ''[[Meghaduta|Meghadūta]]''.<br />
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== Works ==<br />
Dhoyin's ''[[Pavanadūta]]'' or ''Wind Messenger'' is probably one of the earliest surviving examples of the many messenger poems which were written in imitation of [[Kālidāsa]]'s ''[[Meghaduta|Meghadūta]]'' or ''Cloud Messenger''.<br />
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The [[Clay Sanskrit Library]] has published a translation of ''Pavanadūta'' by Sir James Mallinson as a part of the volume ''Messenger Poems''.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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