Catch Hold Of પૃથ્વીવલ્લભ Depicted By Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi Distributed As Print

story written in a veryeasytoread yet entertaining way!! ઘણ સમય પછ ગજરત સહતયકથન આ અદભત નવલક વચ આનદ થય, ક. મ. મનશ પસ શબદન ઉપયગ કરવન એક અદભત કળ છ.

કટલક મણત નધનય વકય :

“અહત એ બધ પપન મળ છ. “

“પરજન ન મતર કરત સવજન ન સવ સર. “

“જ સખ આપ એન મટ દખ થવ એ પણ એક લહવ છ. ”

“યવવસથમ પરણય નસવથ ન શદધ હય છ. આધડ વયમ કષમશલ અન ડહપણભય હય છ. “ I loved the book. It was classic story. Munshiji's storytelling was also great, Conversation of the 'munj' were superb, Must read. The strength of K M Munshi lies in his wordplay, How his sentences flow without any hitch, and similarly the storyline moves forward in a great pace, Despite the fact this is writtenyears back, it seems as fresh as it was then,

I thought this would be a life account kind of writing about King Munj, But altogether this is a surprise, just a leaf from his shining life, Without any dull or slow buildup, the story moves forward from very first chapter and holds you till the end, Wanting us for more. More of the romance between Rasnidhi and Vilas, More of game of thrones Munj, Mrunal, Bhillam and Tailap play, Earlier too I had written this, Munshi's historical epics are of epic level if adapted even now, great story Another brilliant novel by Kanhaiyalal Munshi, I am a fan of this Gujarati writer, So far I have read sitelinkPatan ni Prabhuta or glory of Patan and sitelinkJai Somnath, I have intend to read more of his books, Love the way he write the story, It was fast paced too, This book is a novella,

Two neighboring kings, Munj and Tailap, are rivals, Munj is kind and just, while Tailap is bad, Tailap has an ill tempered sister named Mrinalvati who bosses over everyone, Another king by the name of Bhillam Joins forces with Tailap and together they defeat Munj and take him prisoner, Mrinalvati attempts to humiliate Munj publicly but ends up falling in love with him, Munj too fall for her, Read to know more otherwise it will be a spoiler,

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The novel was adapted into a silent film inby Manilal Joshi, Init was again made in black white Hindi movie directed by Sohrab Modi, You can find movie in youtube,

Novel is available in Hindi, English, Gujarati,
Must read. Absolutely magnificent. No words. best historical fiction written bin Gujarati! KM Munshi has literally nailed the character of Munj that no option has been left but to fall in love with him like Mrunal! It is the first novel I have read written by K.
M. Munshi. We were taught one of the chapters from the book titled "Prithvi Vallabh" as part of our curriculum in, And after so many years, I have had the fortune to read the book, I reckon it is also the centenary year of this book, It is a concise and wonderful depiction of theth century Kingdoms of Malva and Manyakhet, A tale of Munj and Mrunal, Details of places and situation is amazing, The one thing I loved and found thought provoking is the writer's vocabulary to describe the emotions and trauma of the characters, I found last couple of chapters particularly interesting when the story takes surprising turn of events, It is certainly one of the best works of K, M. Munshi. Few observations :

Mrunalvati holds the centre stage, Narrative of her state of mind keeps you awake and curious,
Good description of internal thought process : Arguments, dilemmas, self convincing tactics
Two parallel conversationsvilas bhoj and munj Mrunal keep the pace of story on track.

Beautifully narrated transformation of Laxmidevi, The new avatar itself. Author: K. M. Munshi
Genre: Historical Fiction
Munj know as prithvivallbh, and that means king of world,
Story is about munj,king of Malawa who defeated Tailap king of Manyakhet on sixteen occasions but in thereth and last battle Tailap was able to defeat Munj with help of bhilamraj after that Tailap decided to humiliate Munj and want to take his revenge.
Munj was taken as prisoner to Tailap's kingdom, Tailap's elder widow sister mrinal who hated most munj and back born of Tailap,
she started falling for Munj, My favorite characters from book is of course Munj, . just like Mrinal I also fall for Munj's charms, . A book written a century ago but very readable and relatable, Writer has taken the tale from folklores and made it into a epic, May be considered a novella in today's scenario, In our syllabus, we had a chapter "Why had Prithivivallabh hesitated" The chapter was based on the historical fiction of KM Munshi, originally written in the Gujarati language.
The book is now considered as classic, I Wanted to read this book ever since I had studied that chapter, Though I have read this book almostyears back, I have decided to reread to share my views amp review,

Munj is the protagonist of the story, He was called as "Prithivivallabh" by people, He was a fearsome king with high values, Tailap was his arch enemy, He attacked Munj multiple times and got defeated, Everythime Tailap was allowed to go back by Munj, In his last battle, Tailap was able to defeat Munj and he decided to humiliate Munj for his previous defeats,

Munj was taken as war prisoner to Tailap kingdom's capital, He was asked to beg to the citizen of capitals, Tailap was surprised to find out that his citizen started linking Munj, On top of that, the biggest support of Tailap his own sister Mrinal Devi who had ruled kingdom indirectly was slowly amp steadily falling for Munj.
Tailap then sentenced Munj under elephants leg, Whole capital was invited to see the death of the nation's enemy, but Tailap found tears in his citizen's eyes,

The book considered as a classic in Gujarati literature amp it is translated into many languages so I have very little to add about પૃથ્વીવલ્લભ's content quality.
Every Gujarati reader must read this book at least once, For me, the book comes at the same level as Patanseries by Munshi,

Detailed Link sitelink blogspot. com Prithvivallabha, literally means the ruler of the earth, is the one of the best work of Munshi, I read the chapter named Prithvivallabha, which was excerpt from this book, in myth standard textbook of Gujarati,

Munshi had solidly romanticised the love between the Munj and Mrunal, Book was criticised by Mahatma Gandhi because such romanticisations in thess were considered to be vulgar but in thest century, they seem nothing.


One must go through this book rather than watching movies and serials of this book, Prithivivallabh is based on history of Malwa region of India, The novel depicts the rivalry between Munj, the ruler of Dharanagari and Tailap as well as the romance between Munj and Mrinal, Munj had defeated Tailap several times but Tailap captures Munj with help of his feudatory Yadava king Bhillamraj, In captivity, Munj falls in love with Mrinal, Tailap's widow sister, Celibate Mrinal too falls in love with too, The love story of Bhoj, a poet and Vilas, daughter of Bhillamraj engaged with Satyashraya, son of Tailap runs in parallel, Nice work I enjoyed reading it , lived a several emotions: hate, love, sadness,cryed with Mrinal amp Bhoj, smile amp laugh with Munj I saw Ashish Sharma in every step every gesture every word said by PrthviVallavh Theres this Hindi TV show called Prithvi Vallabh running currently, and when I saw the adverts initially still havent seen the actual programme, it looked interesting and on looking it up further I found that there was a book by the same name in Gujarati, based on the same historical characters.
What made me more interested in reading this was discovering a little later that the K, M Munshi who wrote this book, was the same Munshi whod served as member of the Constituent Assembly and who I came across quite often as a result in college courses and later as minister.
The version I read was of course not Gujarati but an English translation brought out by Bhartiya Vidhya Bhawan, and translated by H, M. Patel.

This is described as a historical romance and based on some surviving verses of a twelfthcentury poem, as well as a fourteenthcentury verse.
The story is basically that of Munja, the brave and handsome king of Malwa who has defeated Tailap of Manyakhet on sixteen or was it eighteen occasions.
But finally, with the help of Bhillam, Tailaps feudatory King, now forced to serve as a mere general under the latter, Munja, also known as Prithvi Vallabh, the beloved of the earth, has been defeated and brought as prisoner to Manyakhet.
Mrinalvati, Tailaps older sister and de facto ruler of Manyakhet is keen on punishing and bringing to his knees Munja, who she views as a sinner, who has insulted her by mentioning her in verse but this bithow or whyreally never becomes clear.
But when she actually meets and interacts with the enchanting, Munja, a man who is no ordinary mortal, she ends up falling in love with him.
Alongside runs the story of Vilasvati, Bhillams daughter who is engaged to Satyashray, Tailaps son and Rasnidhi, a poet who has been captured along with Munja and his armies.


While this is a romance as described, and there are elements that could be

seen as usual for the genre, this story captured my attention from the very beginning because of how different it was from anything that Id read, and especially keeping in mind when it was written.
For starters, as a historical romance, I was expecting teenaged or justoutoftheirteens heroes and heroines many of the stories Ive been reading lately seem to fall into this category that one ordinarily encounters, in such stories and, while there were those, here were some completely different and unexpected characters.
Mrinalvati, our heroine, is fortyfive, a woman who was widowed at sixteen and for whom life has been all about austerity, controlling her emotions, barring out any form of joy or pleasure, a life that in her view is right and that she has imposed on all her kingdom, including young Vilasvati.
This means no laughter, dancing or singing, no poetry or poets, only wars and prayers, and meditation, Then again, she is described on more than one occasion as ugly and greyingso both a rather complex character, and very different from the typical heroine.
But Mrinalvati is not the stereotypical heroine in yet another way, and that is that it is she who wields power in her kingdom, these are questions that weigh with her when she considers a possible life with Munja.
Munja or Prithvi Vallabh too, describes himself as about to be fifty, and is Mrinalvatis polar opposite, on the one side he is happy to experience anything and everythingups, downs, love, hate, victory, defeatand on the other, he lets nothing bring him down or distress or upset him in any way, in some ways rising above emotions much more successfully than Mrinalvati and her kin who observe an almost ascetic lifestyle and yet are keen to get revenge, to humble their enemy.
Mrinalvati learns through Munja to actually love, and that love cannot be taken away from one, no matter what happens, Munja is in some ways a toogoodtobetrue hero, with perfect looks and demeanour, allowing nothing to frazzle him, in a way not a very human or real character but considering he as he is in the book is from a twelfth century poem, one doesnt mind so much.
On the other side, Vilasvati, who has been brought up under Mrinals guidance, and thus tries to supress any emotion, is also exposed to new thought and ideas and poetry, a new way of life through her interactions with the poets, particularly Rasnidhi, who have accompanied Munja and whose release her father has secured.
Incidentally, there are plenty of references to poetry, and I read later on wiki that these were poems from around about the right time period.


So while this is a romance, or two romances, it goes into much more in a way, the whole notion of love in its ideal form, of joy and happiness, of ways of life, being human with all your emotions and pleasures versus being or attempting to be stoic, even the importance of art or poetry or such, and all of this through the story itself, rather than being addressed in a narrators voice.


This read, which again falls within my theme of Kings and Queens, was a really interesting and unusual read, with so much that stood out, and I am very glad I got to read this.
I am keen to explore more of Munshis works and hope I can find translations, .