Indian Antiquary Vol 47

SR No.: 032539
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 386
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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1. Prâsâdavallabha
2. Bhaskarakavi ..
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
VIVEKAPATRAMALA.
BY T. A. GOPINATHA RAO, M.A.; TRIVANDRAM. (Continued from p. 83.)
THE Vibhagapatramâlâ, a manuscript hitherto unpublished, whose existence was brought. to my knowledge by Mr. Raigasvâmi Sarasvati, B.A., and which is a very late production, gives some account of the poets of the village of Mullanḍram. It gives us some glimpses into the lives of a few of them, more especially, of Arunagirinatha (otherwise known also as Sônâdrinatha, &c.) and his son Rajanâtha Kavi. It is stated therein that a Chôla king who went on a pilgrimage to Benares (Gangaikonda Râjêndra Chôladêva I. is evidently referred to here) was met there by a number of learned men of the village of Mandâra. This king being pleased with the erudition and character of these people took them with him to his dominions for the purpose of erecting temples for Siva and settled them in the Kâñchimaṇḍala. They were eight in number and belonged to eight different gôtras; their names and gotras are as follows:
3. Râjanâthakavi
4. Subrahmanyakavi
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5. Jațâdharêsa Dikshita
6. Nilakanthakavi
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7. Sômanâtha Dikshita
8. Mallikarjunabhatta
Kasyapagôtra. Gautamagôtra.
Sâvarṇyagôtra.
Sandilyagotra
Srivatsagotra
Bharadvajagôtra.
Gôtama (Sâmaga) gôtra, and Saukṛitigôtra.
After some time, the Chôla king granted them an agrahara worth 450 nishkas of gold, which was named Mettaippâḍi (translated in Sanskrit as Talpagiri) and which was divided into ten shares, of which eight were given to the abovenamed eight brahmanas and two to the god of the local temple. In this village which was also known as the Râjanâthapura (perhaps after one of the donees, No. 3 of the above list), Râjanâtha built a temple for Siva and set up in it a linga which he called Rajanâthêśvara. The hill situated on the east of their village was called the Mettaippâḍimalai.
The first of the donees, Prâsâdavallabha Dikshita, had, by the grace of the god of Chidambaram (Pundarîkapura), a son named Sabhâpati. The kings of the Chêra, the Chôla and the Pandya countries became his disciples; whenever Sabhâpati went out, a drum (dhakka) mounted on an elephant used to be sounded to announce the advent of the illustrious poet. Hence he was better known as Dhakkâ Sabhâpati. The great grandson of Dhakka Sabhapati was Bhaskarârya, the author of the Prasanna kávya. In this family was born the poet Tyâgarâja who set up a pillar of victory in the Kâmakôtiśvara pitha (i.e., the Sankaracharya matha which is at present situated in Kumbhakôṇam). Tyagaraja had two sons named Svayambhu and Gurusvâmi.
The contemporaries of Svayambhu in the other families were:
Dakshinamurti Yajvâ and Bhaskara Dikshita of the family of Bhaskara Dikshita of the Gautamagôtra; Vidyapatimakhi, Divâkarakavi and Sûryabhatta of the family of the Râjanathakavi of the Savarnyagôtra; Gurumûrtikavi and Sivasûryamakhi of the family of Subrahmanyakavi of the Shodilyagotes; Sivaadryamakhi, Subrahmanyamakhi, Ramalign makhi and Ramachandra of the family of Jatâdharêśa Dikshita of the Srivatsagôtra; Sankarayajva, Nilakanthamakhi, Ya ñanârâyana and Anantakavi of the family of Nilakanthakavi of the Bharadvajagôtra; Râjanâthakavi and Vêņkaṭakavi of the Gôtamagôtra;