Date and composer of महिषासुरमर्दिनीस्तोत्रम्

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,

I'm looking for information about the date and composer of the Mahiṣāsuramardinīstotram.  The only information I've been able to find is a webposting that stated:

 Mahiṣāsuramardinīstotram

Composer - Śri Rāmakrṣna Kavi
Popularised by Śrī Anantarāma Dikshitar Sengalipuram Anantarama(2 August 1903-30 October 1969)
(प्रातः-स्मरणीयः/ प्रातः-स्मरणयोग्यः).
A great kathākār in the south. Used to do kathā on Rāmāyaṇam and Śrimad Bhāgavatam). 

Can anyone give me any information about    Śri Rāmakrṣna Kavi  and  Śrī Anantarāma Dikshitar .

Thanks,

Harry Spier

[Nagaraj Paturi]

The text quoted by you took me to 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1178881069233274881.html

where the person claiming this https://threadreaderapp.com/user/Atmaprajnananda

has several other threads. 

There is a wiki page 

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

https://www.arshasampradaya.org/user/153

gives the email id. 

There is this twitter handle of her:

https://twitter.com/Atmaprajnananda?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

You may ascertain info directly from  her. 

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

This is the tweet where she shared the text brought in by you:

https://twitter.com/Atmaprajnananda/status/1178881069233274881

[Nagaraj Paturi]

This quora thread 

has

this post

someone says it is attributed to both Ramakrishna Kavi and Adi Shankaracharya. I'm here talking about what I've found:

Mahishasura mardini Stotram is a part of Bhagavatipadyapushpanjali stotram (भगवतीपद्यपुष्पांजलिस्तोत्र) which is written by Ramakrishna Kavi . You can read the full Bhagavati Padya Pushpanjali Stotram here in Sanskrit or transliteration.

It can be seen that After 6th verse of Bhagavati Padya Pushpanjali Stotram, Mahishasura Mardini Stotram starts which have 27 verses and then remains another three verses of Bhagavati Padya Pushpanjali Stotra. Verse 29 mention the author of Stotra who is Ramakrishna Kavi

रमयति किल कर्षस्तेषु चित्तं नराणामवरजवरयस्माद्रामकृष्णः कवीनाम् ।
अकृत सुकृतिगम्यं रम्यपद्यैकहर्म्यं स्तवनमवनहेतुं प्रीतये विश्वमातुः ॥ २९॥

ramayati kila karShasteShu chittaM narANAmavarajavarayasmAdrAmakR^iShNaH kavInAm |
akR^ita sukR^itigamyaM ramyapadyaikaharmyaM stavanamavanahetuM prItaye vishvamAtuH || 29||

Sanskrit documents page on Mahishasura Mardini Stotra also mentions that at the end:

The stotra is part of bhagavatIpadyapuShpA.njalIstotra written by Shri Ramakrishna Kavi.

[Jagannatha S]

This is from my GranthaSampadanaShastram

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[Alankar Sharma]

Hi,

The "DeviStrotra Ratnakar" published by Gitapress Gorakhpur refers it as "Sankataastuti" (संकटास्तुति:). But it doesn't talk about who it is attributed to.

Thanks,

Alankar

[Gomathy Swaminathan]

Sri Goda Venkateswara Sastrigal was a Sri Vidya Upasaka and has written many books on Advaita and other topics. He has given a series of discourses on Mahishasuramardini stotram. He says emphatically that this poem was composed by Adi Shankara as he was traversing Vindhya Hills as part of his foot journey throughout Bharatam. You can listen to them on Youtube. Here is a write up about him on Mylapore Times after he passed away.

http://www.mylaporetimes.com/2018/03/tribute-dr-goda-venkateswara-sastry/

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