This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha)
language and literature, specifically to its even less known
Buddhist version. It is one of the very rare cases that works in
Newari language appear outside Nepal.
In nineteen long cantos, the "Sugata Saurabha" tells of the life
of the Buddha, following the traditional accounts, but situates it
in the strongly local context of Newar and Nepali Buddhism. It
emulates the classical (Kavya) style of the long-standing Indian
tradition, and has been inspired by the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit
poem, the "Buddhacarita," Consequently, the poet inserts stanzas
composed in traditional classical Sanskrit meter, though written in
polished Newari.
The poem was composed by the greatest modern writer in Newari
language, Chittadhar Hrdaya (1906- 1982), while he was imprisoned
by the autocratic strongly pro-Hindu Rana regime that governed
Nepal from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
The poem is the best-known work of the flowering of modern
Newari literature that emerged after the restrictions of the Rana
regime were lifted in 1950.
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