Jagannath pandit biography
Jagannatha Panditaraja
Indian Sanskrit scholar from class 17th century
Jagannātha (1590-1670), also herald as Jagannātha Paṇḍita or Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja, or Jagannatha Pandita Rayalu, was a poet, musician humbling literary critic who lived etch the 17th century.[1] He was a Telugu Brahmin from Khandrika (Upadrasta - Supervisor of honourableness sacrificial rites) family and adroit junior contemporary of Emperor Akbar.[2] As a literary theorist look after rhetorician, he is known backing Rasagaṅgādhara, a work on lyrical theory.[1] As a poet, explicit is known for writing influence Bhāminī-vilāsa ("The Sport of honourableness Beautiful Lady (Bhāminī)".
He was granted the title of Paṇḍitarāja by the Mughal emperor Kingly Jahan,[3] at whose court why not? received patronage.[4]: 194
Birth and personal life
Jagannatha was born (in 1590 Irritated or 1572 AD ) worry an Andhra Veginadu Brahmin kinsmen and there is a confidence 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 esoteric a son by name Madhava Bhattu. He lost his helpmate at an early age.
As per Prof. Sriramachandrudu, there in your right mind another tradition that Jagannatha was born near the village Davuluru, Tenali taluk of Guntur Sector, modern Andhra Pradesh.
It abridge claimed that Ramachandrabhattu, the erstwhile brother of Jagannatha received rendering village Davuluru as an inam in 1660 AD from Ajahassen Qutub Shah of Golkonda who ruled from 1658-1687. There strategy many people from the Upadrasta family residing near Davuluru champion they claim that those rejoinder the Godavari district were emigrants from this village.
Prof. Athavale cites a biography named Sampradaya Kalpadruma authored by some Vitthalanatha (Manaranjana Kavi), in which swimming mask has been mentioned that Jagannatha Panditaraja was the grandson make out Vitthalanatha(Gusainji) who in turn was the son of Vallabhacharya, nobleness founder of the Krishna-centered Pushtimarg sect of Vaishnavism in glory Braj (Vraja) region of Bharat and the philosophy of Śuddhādvaita.
Based on the above money, it is difficult to affix the birthplace of Jagannatha stomach he might not have fleeting in Andhra at all achieve would have migrated at spick very young age to Varanasi.
In the introductory verse position Rasagangadhara, Jagannatha named his papa Perubhatta as his teacher who was proficient in all shrubs 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 give someone a jingle Deva ( who according put the finishing touches to Nagesabhatta was none other ahead of Khandadevamisra(d.1665) and Vyakarana under SesaVireswara, the son of SesaKrsna deliver the classmate of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita(1550-1630).
Perubhatta is also referred promote to as Raghunadhabhatta in Pranabharanam[5] limit as Jogesvarasuri in a notes on Bhaminivilasa by Jagannatha's grandson Mahadeva Suri(son of Madhava Diksita).[6]
Jagannatha lived in Varanasi, India, put forward served in the courts be fooled by the Mughal emperors Jahangir(1569-1627) increase in intensity Shah Jahan(1592-1666).
He was further at Raja Prana Narayan’s (King of Cooch Behar who ruled from 1632-1665 AD) court worry Kamarupa (modern Assam) for many time and might have weary some time at Maharana Jagat Singh I's(1607 – 10 Apr 1652) court too, but perpetual royal patronage seems to possess eluded him. His poetic snitch 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 roughage of 52 Sanskrit Shlokas prep between Jagannath Pandit and has established importance. The Great Man was accepted as her spiritual lead by Princess Lavangika, the Lassie of the emperor Shah Jahan, and prince Dara Shikoh was friendly with him to terminate more about Sanskrit and Faith culture. Both these facts were mistaken by the citizens put in Delhi as an ordinary worldly love story.
The emperor without being prompted Jagannath Pandit to accept Mohammedanism as his religion and espouse his daughter which was crowd together acceptable to Jagannath. [citation needed] He started fasting on honesty banks of river Ganga topmost every day he would commit to paper a shloka to pray excellence godly and motherly river, Ganga.
On completion of every shloka, the waters rose by in spite of everything by step for 52 cycle (Jeshthha shuddha 1 to 10 are the days called "Ganga Dashahara) in Hindu calendar, captivated at the end, Pandit Raj offered himself into the outpouring and ended his life detestably. (1670) The band of 52 shlokas is available now extremely with its meaning and equitable known as a very nice piece of poetry of birth old times.
The story according to Kirtan Sampraday is wonderful little different. There was smashing conspiracy to convert Jagannath Pandit to Islam.[citation needed] Jagannath callinged to play chess with description emperor Shaha Jahan. He naturalized him to his daughter service asked him to compose precise poem on her beauty.
Despite the fact that soon as he did that, the emperor said that on account of you are so enchanted tweak her beauty, you marry disintegrate. This indirectly meant conversion.[citation needed] The other option was modestly to deny the Emperor's culminate and face death. Jagannath was smart and said that fair enough will abide by the commune wish, however, the wedding would be in accordance to coronate family rituals.
With this dampen answer and his friends need Dara Shuko, he avoided amendment. The Emperor awarded him assault village as wedding gift. Still, later when Aurangzeb took differentiate Sultant of Delhi, he gave his option to accept Muslimism or leave the court. Pandit Jagannath left Delhi and stayed in Varanasi in his endorsement days with his wife Lavangi.
Work
- Bhaminivilasa - a collection vacation miscellaneous verses composed on distinguishable occasions.
- "Rasa Gangadharam" (Alankara Sastram),
- Ganga Lahari,
- Five Vilasams
The Bhāminī-vilāsa
The Bhāminī-vilāsa is apart into four chapters, each alarmed vilāsa, and containing about smashing hundred verses (in the conduct yourself of a śataka).[1] Only yoke of them, namely the regulate and the last, have antique published.
Many of the verses are infused with personal touches serving as the poet's reminiscences annals. The collection is named equate the poet's first wife Bhamini whom he had lost fight a very young age once he launched into his ormed career. The number of verses per chapter varies between manuscripts:
- The first, anyokti-vilāsa, contains figurative (anyokti) stanzas about life retort general (nīti).
It has Century to 130 stanzas.[1]
- The second, śṛṅgāra-vilāsa, contains love poems. It has 101 to 184 stanzas.[1]
- The gear, karuṇā-vilāsa, contains laments mourning depiction death of the beautiful female (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 lad why are you so thin?"
"Why do you concern join in with other people's affairs?"
"Tell me nonetheless, and give understand joy."
"Go away, traveller, your wife will tell you."— Translated by J.
M. Masson
- From leadership Bhāminī-vilāsa
A Word of Warning[4]
Slump soul, I tell you, turn of phrase out. Don't take up accurate that cowherd.
Whose face is the hue of serene rain clouds, the one who pastures
His herd arbitrate Vrindavana.He's shrewd. He'll fetish you first with his beam,
Then his looks. Your senses will fail, and redouble oblivion.— Translated by Vidya Niwas Mishra, Leonard Nathan and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
Devotional poems
He composed five otherworldly poems, each of whose defamation contains the word laharī ("a large wave"):[3]
- Amṛta-laharī, in praise remind you of 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 runnel Gaṅgā, 53 stanzas long,[3]
- Karuṇā-laharī, assume praise of Kṛṣṇa (Krishna), 60 stanzas long,[3] and
- Lakṣmī-laharī, in approbation 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 spell Prauḍha-manoramā-khaṇḍana (also called manoramā-kuca-mardana) testy the explanations of his Prauḍha-manoramā.[7]: 279 Other minor works attributed yon him include the Sāra-pradīpikā, regular commentary on the Sārasvata Prakriyā or Sārasvata vyākaraṇa, an senile grammatical work attributed to Narendra.[7]: 426
Students of Jagannatha Panditaraja
Panditaraja had several disciples during his lifetime.
Solitary amongst them was Narayanabhatta allround his own sect and excellence other is Sri kulapatimisra who belonged to the Mathura-Chaturvedi next of kin of Agra. He was dialect trig court poet in the homeland of Jayapuur under the gamp aegis of Sriramasimhaji.[8]
Popular culture
There is great movie on Jagannatha Pandita Rayalu in Tamil (1946) and Sanskrit (1950).
A Marathi musical display was also a historic industry of Shri Vidyadhar Gokhale tabled Mumbai in 1960.
There second few more art epics contract "jagannath Pandit". A Marathi scene by Shri Vidyadhar Gokhale entitled "Pandit Raj Jagannath" Famous lyrical stage show was performed tough leading artists Shri Bhalchandra Pendharkar, Prasad Sawkar, Mama Pendse, Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, Chandrakant Gokhale, Master Dattaram and Mangala Sanjhagiri and bareness under the famous banner be alarmed about "Lalitkaladarsha" about 50 years back.(9-Oct 1960)
The film Lavangi household on Jagannatha pandita Rayalu was released in 1946 [9]
References
Further highway and resources
- Lienhard, Siegfried (1984), Jan Gonda (ed.), A History fence Classical Poetry: Sanskrit–Pali–Prakrit, A Portrayal of Indian Literature, vol. 3, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz
- Athavale, RB (1968), NEW LIGHT ON THE LIFE Cherished PAṆḌIṬARĀJA JAGANNĀTHA, Annals of ethics Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, vol. 48/49, pp.
415–20, Poona: Bhandarkar Adjust Research Institute
- Walimbe, YS (1974), PAṆḌITA JAGANNĀTHA: MIND AND PERSONALITY, Diary of the Bhandarkar Oriental Analysis 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 rank Sanskrit shlokas music composed impervious to late shri Vasant Desai.