Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. In this work, Dinkar referred to himself for the first time as the ''Yuga-Chāraṇa'' or '

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of the Era'. ''

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'' is from the collection ''Hunkar'' (A Roar) which has been described by a critic as ''burning coals in the shade of playful rainbow''. Here, the loftiness of the

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reflects metaphorically the Mahatma, whom he invokes to rise to action, leaving the path of the mystical meditation of the ascetic. Few stanzas in translation are: ''My king of mountains! My magnificent one!
'' ''Radiant embodiment of great glory!
'' ''Flame of fierce, accumulated prowess!
'' ''Snowy diadem of my motherland!
'' ''Effulgent brow of my Bharat!
'' ''My king of mountains! My magnificent one!
'' ''Unvanquished, unfettered, free through the ages,
'' ''Sacred, righteously proud and great through the ages,
'' ''What glory have you been radiating
'' ''Through the ages in the limitless sky?
'' ''How unbroken is your eternal meditation!
'' ''Sages of sages! How unending your concentration!
'' ''Pouring into infinite space, what intricate problems
'' ''Do you seek to solve?
'' ''What intractable web of perplexities?
'' ''My king of mountains! My magnificent one!
'' ''O sage engrossed in silent ''tapasya''!
'' ''Open your eyes at least for a moment!
'' ''Our country is burning, in flames
'' ''Writhing restlessly at your feet!
'' ''The blessed

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, the five rivers,

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and

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- the nectar-swept streams
'' ''That flow to the blessed land
'' ''Are abundant with your melting compassion.
'' ''At the gates of that land,
'' ''You, the guardian of its borders,
'' ''Have challenged, 'You must cut off my head
'' ''Before you can trample over this land.
'' ''O pious sage, a great misfortune has fallen today
'' ''On that same land of piety!
'' ''Afflicted, the children are writhing
'' ''Bitten by countless snakes from four directions.
'' ''My king of mountains! My magnificent one!
''

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Hindi poetry Epic poems in Hindi {{India-lit-stub