Saraswatichandra

Saraswatichandra

-        Goverdhanram Tripathi

Saraswatichandra is one step of the world literature. It’s a long narrative novel. We can put Saraswatichandra with LA miserable and Wilhelm master.

There are many characters in the novel and all have quality according to name. The title is the name of hero Saraswatichandra. Goverdhanram Tripathi has presented the modernity. Saraswatichandra is narrator of the novel. The novel startswith temple, Saraswatichandra comesand escape from society and end with hermitage where he gets marriage with Kusum and come back to home.

Saraswatichandra belong to upper class. He has already engaged with Kumud and both loving each other. Somehow his mother die and his father remarriage with Guman. She always suspicion on both. Due to his parent he escapes the world. Even his father tries a lotto find him but he fail.

Saraswatichandra and Kumud agree with their marriage but he avoids everything. Kumud gets another marriage with Pramadhan but she never forgets Saraswatichandra.  She suffers a lot and then decides to suicide. She drown in Subhadra river but fortunately she rescue by holy woman.

Saraswatichandra convert his identity in Navinchandra and Kumud in Madhuri. In spite they continuously loved. Goverdhanram Tripathi presents a kind of pain of woman.Kumud wants to marriage with Saraswatichandra but unfortunately he avoid everything so her parent arrange her marriage with Pramadhan, She is not happy with him but what she can do? She gets love from family but not enough from husband. Here Saraswatichandra also feeling pain of Kumud, parent and his friend.

A friend chandrakant lost his life for Saraswatichandra.  Finally he success to find Saraswatichandra.

At the end both met in hermitage. They think about society that if they will live together then what society will think. They confess their guilty. She is already married so her sister Kusum marriage with Saraswatichandra.

Thought the novel Tripathi wants to say that a man can’t live without family. If a human being wants to live the life of hermitage then he can. He shows the power of wish and will. All characters are full of hope but they are helpless. He has presented the love of family. He gives the character of Rama and Sita to Saraswatichandra and Kumud. The novel is open ended.