प्रो. अजीत कुमार वर्मा

Bhimnath Jha writes that he missed being Verma’s student at C.M. College in 1960–62, and first came to know him in 1982, when he returned to the college as a lecturer in Maithili. Verma had by then moved to the University’s Hindi Department. A colleague introduced them on the street, and a small literary gathering at a public school, where he first heard Verma speak, deepened the acquaintance.भीमनाथ झा लिखैत छथि जे 1960-62 मे सी.एम. कालेजमे वर्माजीक छात्र होयबाक सौभाग्यसँ ओ चुकि गेल छलाह, आ 1982 मे जखन ओ मैथिलीक व्याख्याताक रूपमे कालेज एलाह तखन परिचय भेल, जहिया वर्माजी विश्वविद्यालयक हिन्दी विभाग चलि गेल छलाह। एक सहकर्मी बाटमे परिचय करौलनि, आ एक विद्यालयक प्रांगणमे छोट साहित्यिक गोष्ठीमे हुनक भाषण सुनि परिचय गाढ़ भेल।

The heart of the memoir is a memorial meeting for the poet Yatri, where Verma spoke on Nagarjun–Yatri; listening to him, the writer says, felt as if nectar were flowing straight from Saraswati’s mouth. Later he settled in Lakshmisagar close to Verma’s house, and describes evenings on Verma’s veranda, where the scholar shared the ‘nectar of poetry’, and Verma’s rich library of Hindi classics. It closes by calling the protection of learning from being poisoned the most valuable offering a pupil can make to a great teacher.संस्मरणक केन्द्रमे महाकवि यात्रीक द्वादशाह-दिनक शोकसभा अछि, जतय वर्माजी नागार्जुन-यात्री पर बजला; हुनका सुनब, लेखकक शब्दमे, जेना सरस्वतीक श्रीमुखसँ अमृत-वाणी बहि रहल हो। पछाति लक्ष्मीसागरमे वर्माजीक आवासक लगे बसब भेल, आ लेखक हुनक बरंडाक साँझ, जतय ओ ‘काव्यामृत’ बँटैत छला, आ हिन्दीक क्लासिक ग्रन्थसँ भरल हुनक समृद्ध पुस्तकालयक वर्णन करैत छथि। अन्तमे विद्याक बसातकेँ विषाक्त होयबासँ बचायब शिष्यक दिससँ महान् गुरुकेँ सभसँ मूल्यवान गुरुदक्षिणा कहल गेल अछि।