Thursday, March 23, 2017

Foundation of Rabitalent (1866-1876)

The foundation of Rabitalent was hard labour. 1. Reading books at random, 2.Singing songs from childhood, 3. Doing regular physical exercises.
The first book Rabindranath read was Sishu Shiksha -1st Part by Madan Mohan Tarkalankar. In that book he came across two words "Double Rhi" and "double li" which were absent in Barna Parichay , Pratham Bhag by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Rabindranath could not keep himself free from those two words and wrote ,
Dui Burho Ri RRi
Chale dhiri dhiri.
Dui bon li lli Hase khili khili.
Ha hanche Ha kshiya
Kshikase kha ksha.
Age of Rabindranath was 3yers 8 months.
At the age of 5 Rabindranath studied Barnaparichay 2nd Part by Vidyasagar and worked Srutilikhan [dictation], multiplication table and mental mathematics.
Rabindranath was acquainted with Ramayan by his servant Ishwar at the age of 6. Rabindranath began to study Bodhaday [pratham prakash] . His home tutor Nilkamal Ghosal explained the infiniteness of the sky. This story increased Rabindranath's imaginative power.
At the age of 7 [1868] Rabindranath began studying English. the first book he read was "The first book of Reading-by Parrycharan Sircar.
At the age of 7/8 Rabindranath started writing poetry. He wrote in this context, "My age does not exceed 7/8."
His first manuscript was a blue coloured copy book received from a staff of house office. 
Rbindranath said, "I can not remember when music was unknown to me." His first teacher of music was Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay. Then he got Bishnu Chandra Chakrabarty as his music teacher. He was also the music teacher of Tagore family. An example of the song he taught,
"Chandra Surya har meneche jonak jwale bati" But the method of teaching of Bishnu Chandra was different from that of the modern teacher.
Rabindranath was learning wrestling and gymanastic. At the same time he  was also taking traing of Stick game.
Writing of poetry of Rabindranath was going as usual and the news spread not only within the house but also  outside it. Gubinda Babu, superintendent of the school [Normal], asked Rabindranath to write a poetry . Rabindranath did it . He wrote a poetry on common good feeling.[sadbhab]
Writing of poetry of Rabindranath was going as usual and the news spread not only within the house but also outside it. Gubinda Babu, superintendent of the school [Normal], asked Rabindranath to write a poetry . Rabindranath did it . He wrote a poetry on common good feeling.[sadbhab] 
 Rabindranath followed a time table from 4 am to 9 pm consisting of study, games and music.
He wrote , " the Bengali literature was very short. I have finished all the books readable or not readable. " He wrote that he read " Krittibas, Kashiram Das, Bibidhartha Sangraha , Arabyupanyas, Bangla Rabinsoa cruso, sushilar upakhyan, life sketch of Raja Pratapaditya Roy, Betal Panchbingsati, etc sufficient books at that time.
The time mentioned here a book titled  ' jamai barik' written by Dinobandhu Mitra [20 march 1872]. Some distant relatives of Rabindranath read the book. He did not attend the age and the person in concerned was not willing  to hand over the book to him. He put the book in a box under lock and key and kept the key in his pocket. Rabindranath, after many attempts, got the book and read that.
Rabindranath knew Bengali well but he knew little of English. He wrote, " in my childhood, when I knew little of English, I read many books with pictures titled "Old Curiosity Shop" from top to bottom."
A central idea protected him from being poisoned. Once his elder brother Dwijendranath instrucyed him to keep celibacy.  

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