Savitribai Phule · Sanskrit Story
India's First Female Poet of Protest
क्रान्तिकवयित्री
Savitribai Phule — Kavya Phule (1854); Hari Narke (ed.) — Savitribai Phule Samagra Vangmay · Intermediate
Words as Torches
सावित्री न केवलं शिक्षिका — सा कवयित्री अपि। तस्याः शब्दाः दीपाः — अन्धकारे प्रज्वलन्ते। "उत्तिष्ठ, जागृहि, ज्ञानं गृहाण!" — सा लिखति। "जातिभेदं त्यज, मानवं प्रेमय।" इति सावित्र्याः काव्यफुले — भारतस्य महिलासाहित्यस्य आदिकृतिः।
Savitribai was not only a teacher — she was also a kavayitrī (कवयित्री — poetess). Her words were lamps — burning bright in the darkness (andhakāra — अन्धकारः). "Rise, awaken, take knowledge!" — she wrote. "Abandon caste division, love humanity." Thus was Savitribai's Kavya Phule — the founding work of India's women's literature.
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