Aadibhatla Narayana Dasu Statue

Kamalakar Anthati 58 months ago

Aadibhatla Narayana Dasu is Known as Pandit, Scolar, Legend & genius, Narayana Dasu was a Poet, Dancer, Philosopher, Musician and Linguist. He wrote more than fifty books in Sanskrit, Telugu, Atcha Telugu ( Unmixed Sanskrit ) , He translated many books from Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian to English, Telugu and some other Languages, he had Mastery over four Classical Languages, Sanskrit, Telugu, Arabic and Persian, He composed a lyric, entitled Dasha Vidha Raga Navati Kusuma Manjari employing 90 ragas in the Manjari metre. Such a composition has never been attempted and is a testimony to his rare mastery over poetry and music. He set to musical notation 300-odd select ruks from the Rigveda in a work entitled Ruksangraham and taught playing them on the veena to students but also translated them as poems in Telugu. poetry, music and dance he created a new art form which he called the Harikatha. Harikatha has a divine mythological core with poetry and music as the medium. Dance and histrionics form the visual expression.

The exponent of Harikatha should be able to compose and recite extempore the objective of the performance being to entertain and educate both the layman and the erudite scholar. Having invented the vehicle, he wrote twenty one Harikathas, seventeen in Telugu, three in Sanskrit. He was the First Principal of Maharaja's College of Music and Dance, Vijayanagaram.Even when he consented to head 'Shri Vijayarama Gana Pathashala', the music college the Maharajah of Vizianagaram founded for the express purpose of honouring him, he insisted that it be treated as a temple for Sri Rama and him as His servant. The only vanity he permitted himself was that he wanted to be second to none! he met Swami vivekananda in USA and taught ashtadhyayi to Swami vivekananda. The Great Narayana Dasu.