Request for information about poetess madhuravāṇī

[welipitiye indananda]

Dear Scholars,

I'm interested in reading about Sanskrit poetess madhuravāṇī who lived in 17th century in India.

Therefore, I kindly request you all to let me know any source to know about poetess madhuravāṇī. I highly appreciate your contribution to my request.

Thank you very much

Kindly

Ven. Indananda

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Ven. Welipitiye Indananda

BA Hons., MPhil (Peradeniya)

Lecturer in Sanskrit

Department of Classical Languages

Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya

Peradeniya, 20400

SRI LANKA.

[shankara]

Namaste,

You may refer to volume 2 of 'The contribution of women to Sanskrit literature' in 7 vols by J.B. Chaudhuri.

https://archive.org/details/Contribution_Of_Women_To_Sanskrit_Literature_7_Volumes_JB_Chaudhuri/Contribution%20of%20Women%20to%20Sanskrit%20Literature%20Volume%201%20-%20Viddhasalabhanjika%20-%20JB%20Chaudhuri%201943

regards
shankara

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuravani

Madhuravani was a scholar and poet who lived in Thanjavur during the reign of the Thanjavur Nayak king Raghunatha Nayak (r. 1600-34). She is widely renowned for her Sanskrit translation of Raghunatha's Ramayana kavya. She also wrote many other Sanskrit works such as Kumarasambhavam and Naishadham. Tharu and Lalita says that she "could compose poetry in three languages and was an expert in ashtavadhanam (the capacity to attend to eight different intellectual activities at the same time)."

• Rao, N. Venkata (1978). The southern school in Telugu literature. University of Madras. p. 10.

Tharu and Lalita (Eds.) Women Writing in India. New York: The Feminist Press, 1991.

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This seems to be a 19 pages book 

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Director,  Inter-Gurukula-University Centre , Indic Academy

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.

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BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Studies in Public Leadership

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education, 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

 

 

[Gauri Mahulikar]

Hari Om!

Dear Nagaraj Garu,

This is very exciting. Madhuravani's original poem of 1500 Shlokas on the Ramayana. 

I had worked on Molla Ramayana. Molla Ramayana has only 6 kanda-s

Have presented on the Ramayana through the folk-songs of Maharashtrian women. 

Would love to read Madhuravani's Ramayana-sara 

warm regards

Prof. Gauri Mahulikar

Dean of Faculty, Chinmaya University

Veliyanad, Ernakulam, 682313

Former Prof & Head, Sanskrit Dept

Mumbai University

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

  Dear Gauri-ji,

16th and 17th centuries seem to be the time when sangraha forms of the three major Purana works Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavat were being composed in big number by several poets and poetesses.

Molla Ramayanamu is a transcreation of the Mula Ramayanam from the Bala Kanda. 

She says, Naarada was narrating to Valmiki. 

At the end of prathamaashvaasamu , she says ........... hearing this, the great sage Valmiki asked Narada to narrate the next part of the story. 

This Narada-Valmiki conversation is part of Bala Kanda . 

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

Sri T Naarasimhiengar treats Sree RaamaayaNa Saara by Madhura Vani as an independent Mahaa kaavya. But it is the Sanskrit translation of what is called as Raghunatha Ramayanamu , a Telugu kaavya work by the Tanjore king Raghunatha Nayaka. 

Very few regional Indian language works got translated into Sanskrit or Sanskrit mahaa kaavyas which are translations from regional Indian languages are rare. 

Ramayana Saara is one such rare work. 

Madhura Vani represents the milieu of the 17th century or Nayaka period when the number of women poets that too women court poets suddenly increased. 

Many of them had titles such as Ashtabhaashaavishaarada , Chaturvidhakavitaavishaarada and received many honours like kanakaabhisheka, gajaarohana etc from their kings. 

There were many like her who interestingly composed mostly in Sanskrit rather than in the regional language Telugu that was used by the poets of their time and place. 

[Gauri Mahulikar]

Hari Om!

Thank you Nagaraja Garu for the detailed explanation!

warm regards

Prof. Gauri Mahulikar

Dean of Faculty, Chinmaya University

Veliyanad, Ernakulam, 682313

Former Prof & Head, Sanskrit Dept

Mumbai University

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