Girish Karnad, Your Nagamandala, Not Yours, But Archetypal, Racial And Ethnic Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Girish Karnad, the play Nagamandala
Which you wrote
Is not yours,
The theme of it,
As the story is of the folks
With the narratives,
Archetypal, racial and ethnic,
Pre-Aryan
And of belief and rituals
And improvised you
The things of Nagapanchami
On which
Milk and others is offered to
The naga,
Improvised you
The wooden been music
Of the snake-charmers
And the things of
Ma Manasa and Shitala,
The things of
Icchadhari Naga, Nagin.