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Srimanta Sankardev [10] (/ ˈ s r ɪ ˌ m æ n t ə ˈ s æ n k ər ˌ d eɪ v /, Assamese pronunciation: [sɹimɔntɔ xɔŋkɔɹdɛβ]; 1449–1568) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath; a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, dancer, actor, musician, artist social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of the Bhakti movement in Assam.
Gujarat - The Tulsi-Krta Ramayana is a Gujarati adaptation of Tulsidas' Ramcharitamanas in the 17th century, by the poet Premanand Swami. The Giradhara Ramayana is also a prominent retelling of Ramayana in Gujarati by the 18th-century poet Giradhara Gosvami. Jammu and Kashmir – The Kashmiri Ramavatara Charita was written in the 19th century.
This poem is of great significance as it is one of the first writings by Sankardeva, [2] whose works later on brought about the widely affecting Vaishnavite movement in Assam.
Madhava Kandali is credited with the task of translating ‘Valmiki’s Ramayana into the Assamese language as early as the 14th century. [9] The Assamese version of Ramayana conceptualized by Madhava Kandali is the first of its kind among all the regional languages of North and Northeast India. Although Madhava Kandali has written that ...
The Ramayana (/ r ɑː ˈ m ɑː j ə n ə /; [1] [2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam [3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other ...
Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha has set up 60 schools in the state to give spiritual education to the children in addition to general education. The education wing supervises these schools. The incorporation of the Sankaradeva study is an important feature of these schools.
It is a creation of Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva, written in the early sixteenth century. He created the form to convey religious messages to villagers through entertainment. Later Srimanta Madhavdeva also wrote some plays. [1] [2] The plays of bhaona are popularly known as Ankiya Nats and their staging is known as bhaona. [3]
The religion fissured into four sanghati (samhatis or sub-sects) soon after the death of Srimanta Sankardeva. Sankardev handed down the leadership to Madhabdev, but the followers of Damodardev and Harideva did not accept Madhabdev as their leader and formed their own group (Brahma sanghati). Madhabdeva at the time of his death did not name a ...