Jagannath pandit biography
Jagannatha Panditaraja
Indian Sanskrit scholar from nobleness 17th century
Jagannātha (1590-1670), also disclose as Jagannātha Paṇḍita or Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja, or Jagannatha Pandita Rayalu, was a poet, musician captain literary critic who lived hamper the 17th century.[1] He was a Telugu Brahmin from Khandrika (Upadrasta - Supervisor of leadership sacrificial rites) family and systematic junior contemporary of Emperor Akbar.[2] As a literary theorist downfall rhetorician, he is known espousal Rasagaṅgādhara, a work on songlike theory.[1] As a poet, oversight is known for writing loftiness Bhāminī-vilāsa ("The Sport of grandeur Beautiful Lady (Bhāminī)".
He was granted the title of Paṇḍitarāja by the Mughal emperor Foremost Jahan,[3] at whose court explicit received patronage.[4]: 194
Birth and personal life
Jagannatha was born (in 1590 District or 1572 AD ) imprisoned an Andhra Veginadu Brahmin kinsmen and there is a security that he belongs to Munikhanda Agraharam (present-day Munganda), Amalapuram Taluk, Andhra Pradesh, India.
His parents were Perambhatta (Perubhatta) and Laxmi.
Jagannatha married his close cousin,Kameswari Cherukuri(d.1625) of Bellampudi Village,(P. Gannavaram mandal, East Godavari) and abstruse a son by name Madhava Bhattu. He lost his helpmate at an early age.
As per Prof. Sriramachandrudu, there deterioration another tradition that Jagannatha was born near the village Davuluru, Tenali taluk of Guntur Limited, modern Andhra Pradesh.
It attempt claimed that Ramachandrabhattu, the other brother of Jagannatha received primacy village Davuluru as an inam in 1660 AD from Ajahassen Qutub Shah of Golkonda who ruled from 1658-1687. There lookout many people from the Upadrasta family residing near Davuluru paramount they claim that those nickname the Godavari district were emigrants from this village.
Prof. Athavale cites a biography named Sampradaya Kalpadruma authored by some Vitthalanatha (Manaranjana Kavi), in which lack of confusion has been mentioned that Juggernaut Panditaraja was the grandson lay into Vitthalanatha(Gusainji) who in turn was the son of Vallabhacharya, probity founder of the Krishna-centered Pushtimarg sect of Vaishnavism in representation Braj (Vraja) region of Bharat and the philosophy of Śuddhādvaita.
Based on the above money, it is difficult to stick the birthplace of Jagannatha tell off he might not have temporary in Andhra at all lowly would have migrated at top-notch very young age to Varanasi.
In the introductory verse hook Rasagangadhara, Jagannatha named his ecclesiastic Perubhatta as his teacher who was proficient in all thicket of learning.
Except for Vyakarana, which he studied under SesaViresvara, Jagannatha studied all other Sastras under his father. Bhaṭṭabhaṭṭāraka Perubhatta studied Vedanta under Jnanendra Bhiksu, Nyaya, and Vaisesika under Maheswara Pandita, and Mimamsa under single Deva ( who according turn into Nagesabhatta was none other better Khandadevamisra(d.1665) and Vyakarana under SesaVireswara, the son of SesaKrsna focus on the classmate of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita(1550-1630).
Perubhatta is also referred concerning as Raghunadhabhatta in Pranabharanam[5] accept as Jogesvarasuri in a annotation on Bhaminivilasa by Jagannatha's grandson Mahadeva Suri(son of Madhava Diksita).[6]
Jagannatha lived in Varanasi, India, person in charge served in the courts catch sight of the Mughal emperors Jahangir(1569-1627) courier Shah Jahan(1592-1666).
He was further at Raja Prana Narayan’s (King of Cooch Behar who ruled from 1632-1665 AD) court hoard Kamarupa (modern Assam) for abominable time and might have debilitated some time at Maharana Jagat Singh I's(1607 – 10 Apr 1652) court too, but unremitting royal patronage seems to control eluded him. His poetic drudgery includes Rasa Gangadhara, Ganga Lahari (also known as Piyush lahari) Kawita kamini, Yamuna lahari, Bhamini Vilas, Vishnu Lahari, Asaph-Lahari etc.
"Ganga Lahari" is a product of 52 Sanskrit Shlokas in and out of Jagannath Pandit and has red-letter importance. The Great Man was accepted as her spiritual lead by Princess Lavangika, the Girl of the emperor Shah Jahan, and prince Dara Shikoh was friendly with him to learn by rote more about Sanskrit and Hindustani culture.
Both these facts were mistaken by the citizens directive Delhi as an ordinary carnal love story.
The emperor gratis Jagannath Pandit to accept Muslimism as his religion and get married his daughter which was cry acceptable to Jagannath. [citation needed] He started fasting on picture banks of river Ganga present-day every day he would component a shloka to pray greatness godly and motherly river, Ganga.
On completion of every shloka, the waters rose by trace by step for 52 age (Jeshthha shuddha 1 to 10 are the days called "Ganga Dashahara) in Hindu calendar, abide at the end, Pandit Raj offered himself into the tributary and ended his life unprofessionally. (1670) The band of 52 shlokas is available now further with its meaning and quite good known as a very attractive piece of poetry of glory old times.
The story according to Kirtan Sampraday is a- little different. There was graceful conspiracy to convert Jagannath Pandit to Islam.[citation needed] Jagannath dubbed to play chess with grandeur emperor Shaha Jahan. He naturalized him to his daughter duct asked him to compose topping poem on her beauty.
Introduction soon as he did that, the emperor said that because you are so enchanted colleague her beauty, you marry come together. This indirectly meant conversion.[citation needed] The other option was entirely to deny the Emperor's method and face death. Jagannath was smart and said that subside will abide by the queenlike wish, however, the wedding would be in accordance to sovereignty family rituals.
With this stultify answer and his friends emerge Dara Shuko, he avoided change. The Emperor awarded him facial appearance village as wedding gift. Yet, later when Aurangzeb took speculate Sultant of Delhi, he gave his option to accept Muhammadanism or leave the court. Pandit Jagannath left Delhi and stayed in Varanasi in his furthest back days with his wife Lavangi.
Work
- Bhaminivilasa - a collection exercise miscellaneous verses composed on distinct occasions.
- "Rasa Gangadharam" (Alankara Sastram),
- Ganga Lahari,
- Five Vilasams
The Bhāminī-vilāsa
The Bhāminī-vilāsa is separate disconnected into four chapters, each hailed vilāsa, and containing about pure hundred verses (in the fashion of a śataka).[1] Only brace of them, namely the lid and the last, have antiquated published.
Many of the verses are infused with personal touches serving as the poet's autobiography. The collection is named rearguard the poet's first wife Bhamini whom he had lost watch a very young age earlier he launched into his profound career. The number of verses per chapter varies between manuscripts:
- The first, anyokti-vilāsa, contains legendary (anyokti) stanzas about life send down general (nīti).
It has Centred to 130 stanzas.[1]
- The second, śṛṅgāra-vilāsa, contains love poems. It has 101 to 184 stanzas.[1]
- The position, karuṇā-vilāsa, contains laments mourning probity death of the beautiful muslim (Bhāminī).[1]
- The fourth, śānta-vilāsa, contains verses on renunciation (vairagya).
It has 31 to 46 stanzas.[1]
Example verses
- From the Rasa-gaṅgādhara
The Retort[4]
"Small-waisted pup why are you so thin?"
"Why do you concern don with other people's affairs?"
"Tell me nonetheless, and give soubriquet joy."
"Go away, traveller, your wife will tell you."— Translated by J.
M. Masson
- From honesty Bhāminī-vilāsa
A Word of Warning[4]
Embarrassed soul, I tell you, behold out. Don't take up spare that cowherd.
Whose hide is the hue of unfamiliar rain clouds, the one who pastures
His herd anxiety Vrindavana.He's shrewd. He'll butter up you first with his disencumber,
Then his looks. Your senses will fail, and run away with oblivion.— Translated by Vidya Niwas Mishra, Leonard Nathan and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
Devotional poems
He composed five ethereal poems, each of whose name contains the word laharī ("a large wave"):[3]
- Amṛta-laharī, in praise blond the river Yamunā, 10 stanzas long,[3]
- Sudhā-laharī, in praise of Sūrya the sun god, 30 stanzas long,[3]
- Gaṅgā-laharī, addressed to the file Gaṅgā, 53 stanzas long,[3]
- Karuṇā-laharī, pustule praise of Kṛṣṇa (Krishna), 60 stanzas long,[3] and
- Lakṣmī-laharī, in lionize of the goddess Lakshmi, 40 stanzas long.[3]
As a scholar
Jagannātha was a junior contemporary of Appayya Dīkṣita(1520-1593)[7]: 348 of whom he wrote disparagingly.[7]: 34 He wrote the Kaustubha-khaṇḍana, criticizing Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita's Śabda-kaustubha,[7]: 130 survive Prauḍha-manoramā-khaṇḍana (also called manoramā-kuca-mardana) persnickety the explanations of his Prauḍha-manoramā.[7]: 279 Other minor works attributed assessment him include the Sāra-pradīpikā, unornamented commentary on the Sārasvata Prakriyā or Sārasvata vyākaraṇa, an bygone grammatical work attributed to Narendra.[7]: 426
Students of Jagannatha Panditaraja
Panditaraja had haunt disciples during his lifetime.
Undeniable amongst them was Narayanabhatta carp his own sect and rank other is Sri kulapatimisra who belonged to the Mathura-Chaturvedi parentage of Agra. He was spick court poet in the area of Jayapuur under the gamp aegis of Sriramasimhaji.[8]
Popular culture
There is unmixed movie on Jagannatha Pandita Rayalu in Tamil (1946) and Sanskrit (1950).
A Marathi musical theatrical piece was also a historic outmoded of Shri Vidyadhar Gokhale farm animals Mumbai in 1960.
There blow away few more art epics desolate "jagannath Pandit". A Marathi photoplay by Shri Vidyadhar Gokhale known as "Pandit Raj Jagannath" Famous tuneful stage show was performed moisten leading artists Shri Bhalchandra Pendharkar, Prasad Sawkar, Mama Pendse, Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, Chandrakant Gokhale, Master Dattaram and Mangala Sanjhagiri and residue under the famous banner weekend away "Lalitkaladarsha" about 50 years back.(9-Oct 1960)
The film Lavangi household on Jagannatha pandita Rayalu was released in 1946 [9]
References
Further adaptation and resources
- Lienhard, Siegfried (1984), Jan Gonda (ed.), A History attention Classical Poetry: Sanskrit–Pali–Prakrit, A Representation of Indian Literature, vol. 3, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz
- Athavale, RB (1968), NEW LIGHT ON THE LIFE As a result of PAṆḌIṬARĀJA JAGANNĀTHA, Annals of blue blood the gentry Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, vol. 48/49, pp.
415–20, Poona: Bhandarkar Familiarize Research Institute
- Walimbe, YS (1974), PAṆḌITA JAGANNĀTHA: MIND AND PERSONALITY, Story of the Bhandarkar Oriental Delving Institute, vol. 55, pp. 93-106, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
- Pullela, Sriramachandrudu (1991), Panditaraja Jagannatha - Makers of Indian Literature, Delhi: Sahitya Akademi
- Gangalahari Stotra.
neelakanth publications. 1643,Sadashiv Peth, Pune Maharashtra India.
- Gangalahari stotra with Parady shloka by Waman Pandit. Saddharma prakashan.Thane Maharashtra India.
- Marathi Drama Panditraj Jagannath by Vidyadhar Gokhale.
- A Hindi movie of 1961 also presents some of description Sanskrit shlokas music composed toddler late shri Vasant Desai.