The Kalahastisvara Satakamu is a collection of poems composed in Telugu by Dhurjati, who has been described as an ashtadiggaja in the Vijayanagara court of Krishnadevaraya.[1] The poems are dedicated to the form of Shiva venerated at the Kalahasti temple.[2] They are well-known by Telugu-speaking audiences.[3][4]
The Satakamu text generally comprises a collection of one hundred poems[3] in praise of a deity.[5] The manuscripts of this text contain somewhere between 21 and 129 poems.[2] Each poem ends with an invocation of Shiva, the god of Kalahasti.[2] The poems primarily concern devotion[2] to Shiva as a means to liberation from karma.[5]
After the introduction of the printing press in the nineteenth century, print copies of the already popular Kalahastisvara Satakamu circulated among Telugu audiences.[4] A selection of these poems has been translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and Hank Heifetz.[2][5] The collection was published by the University of California Press.[6]
References
edit- ^ Pradesh (India), Andhra (1979). Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers. Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press; [copies can be had from: Government Publication Bureau, Andhra Pradesh]. p. 169.
- ^ a b c d e Heifetz, Hank; Narayana Rao, Velcheru (1987). For the Lord of the animals ; poems from the Telugu: the Kāḷahastīśvara śatakamu of Dhūrjaṭi. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520056695.
- ^ a b Glory of India. Motilal Banarsides. 1987. p. 33.
- ^ a b Vakulabharanam, Rajagopal. "Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu - ProQuest". www.proquest.com.
- ^ a b c Sax, W. S. (1992). "Review of Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 112 (4): 656–658. doi:10.2307/604482. ISSN 0003-0279.
- ^ "JAS volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter". The Journal of Asian Studies. 47 (4): b1–b29. November 1988. doi:10.1017/S0021911800164447. ISSN 1752-0401.