Madhava Kandali

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Madhava Kandali
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Assamese (Early form)
Period1400s
Notable worksSaptakanda Ramayana
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Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (circa. 14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam. He is one of the renowned poets pertaining to the Pre-Shankara era. His Saptakanda Ramayana is considered the earliest translation of the Ramayana into an Indo-Aryan language, Assamese.[4] This work was carried out by the poet as early as the 14th Century. Another significant work of his is the narrative poem Devajit, which is about superiority of Krishna over the other avatars of Vishnu.[5] Kandali's patron was the Barāha King Mahamanikya (mid 14th century)[6] whose kingdom was located in the Kapili valley.[7] Kabiraja Madhava Kandali was said to be inhabitant of Lanka of Undivided Nagaon.[8]

Literary works

Saptakanda Ramayana

Main article: Saptakanda Ramayana

Madhava Kandali is credited with the task of translating ‘

Shankardeva, Mahapurush Madhavdev
wrote “Adikanda” and Mahapurush Srimanta Shankardeva, wrote the “Uttarakanda” in order to compensate the lost cantos and thus completed the epic consisting of “Sapta Kanda” or seven cantos. Madhava Kandali has not translated the “Shlokas” (a couplet of Sanskrit verse) of valmiki Ramayana as it is. He instead abandoned some unnecessary verse narratives and long descriptive passages. He has written the Assamese Ramayana in a lucid and rhythmic pattern thus catering to the needs of the common Assamese people.He has also provided explanations for his inclusion of non-valmiki elements while composing the epic.

Srimanta

Kalidas of Assam”.[citation needed
]

Devajit

Madhava Kandali is also credited to be the composer of another poetical work ‘Devajit’ [10] where he portrays Lord Krishna as the greatest incarnation (avatar) of Lord Bishnu.

Musical instruments

He lists several instruments in his "Ramayana", such as

vipanchi, etc. (meaning that these instruments existed since his time in 14th century or earlier).[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "639 Identifier Documentation: aho – ISO 639-3". SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics). SIL International. Retrieved 29 June 2019. Ahom [aho]
  2. ^ "Population by Religious Communities". Census India – 2001. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 1 July 2019. Census Data Finder/C Series/Population by Religious Communities
  3. ^ "Population by religion community – 2011". Census of India, 2011. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015. 2011census/C-01/DDW00C-01 MDDS.XLS
  4. S2CID 39558655
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  5. OCLC 886671648
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  6. ^ "Madhav Kandali" (PDF). Barāha King Mahamanikya.
  7. ^ Stone inscription of Barāha king Mahamanik of the mid 14th century
  8. ^ (Thakuria 2015:164) saka 1274 / 1352 A.D
  9. ^ Bulke, Father Kamil:Ram-katha, Pg 230
  10. ^ Sharma, Satendra Nath:Axomia Sahityar Samikhaytmak Etibritto, pg-63
  11. ^ Suresh Kant Sharma and Usha Sharma, 2005, Discovery of North-East India, Page 288.
  12. OCLC 47208217.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )

Sources

  • Goswami, Indira (1996). Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra. B.R. Pub. Corp. ISBN 81-7018-858-X
  • Kandali, Madhava.Saptakanda Ramayana, (in Assamese). Banalata.
  • Sarma, Satyendranath. (1976). Assamese literature. Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447017368.

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