रम्यनाटकानि (Ramya Natakani)
Seven stageable Sanskrit plays for children, teaching life values through dramatic action rather than instruction.
Overview
A play is not a text to be read — it is a script to be performed, and performance changes everything about how a child understands a story. Arya Chandrashekhara's seven short plays in Sanskrit are written explicitly for staging, and that practical intent shapes every scene.
The seven pieces range from a children's friendly conversation to a meditation on all-pervading love, with stops at a music-loving king, the story of Thiruvalluvar, Nachiketa's search for truth, and a new-age vision of a yajna. Each play embeds life values and ethical principles not through lecture but through dialogue and dramatic situation — characters choose, conflict, and sometimes fail. The Sanskrit is calibrated for young performers, not for scholars. The stage directions and scene structure make these suitable for school productions, annual day programmes, and Sanskrit study circles.
For teachers who want students to inhabit Sanskrit rather than merely decode it, these plays offer a direct route into the language through the body and the voice.
-:पुस्तक-परिचयः:- श्रीशेखरार्यविरचितानि सप्त लघूनाटकानि बालानां कृते जीवनमूल्यानि, नैतिकसिद्धान्तान् च सुखेन बोधयन्ति। मञ्चनयोग्यानि नाटकानि शिक्षणं मनोरञ्जकं कुर्वन्ति । श्रीशेखर आर्य द्वारा रचित सात लघु नाटक बच्चों के लिए जीवन-मूल्यों और नैतिक सिद्धांतों को सरल एवं रोचक ढंग से समझाते हैं। ये नाटक मंचन के योग्य हैं और शिक्षा को मनोरंजक बनाते हैं। -:अनुक्रमणिका:- १. बालानां नेहालापाः ६. सङ्गीत-प्रियः राजा १६. विग्रहः २६. तिरुवल्लुवर ३१. आत्माभिलाषी नचिकेताः ३९. अभिनवनेत्रमेधयज्ञः ४४. सर्वं प्रेममयम्
