Kanakadasa Jayanthi, the delivery anniversary of thinker Kanakadasa, is being celebrated on Friday in Karnataka. It’s often celebrated on the 18th day of the Karthika masa of the Hindu calendar yearly. It is a public vacation in Karnataka, and often falls within the month of November.
On this event, listed below are 5 issues to know concerning the saint-philosopher.
1. Kanakadasa was initially named Thimmappa Nayaka, and he was born on December 3, 1509. He’s identified for his compositions within the Carnatic model. He used the pen title – ‘Kaaginele Adikeshava’ – for all his songs. Nalacharithre, Haribhakthisara, Nrisimhastava, Ramadhanyacharithre and Mohanatarangini are a few of his well-known works.
2. Kanakadasa was born in a Kuruba (shepherd) household. Earlier than changing into a saint, he was a warrior. It’s believed that he gave that up, and have become a Haridasa – servant of god – after he was gravely injured in a battle however survived miraculously.
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3. Kanakadasa performed a pivotal position within the Bhakti motion as he actively discarded inflexible caste-based techniques in locations of worship. He, together with fellow Haridasa, Purandaradasa, rejected norms by singing and composing keerthanas in native language Kannada, whereas, most songs of religion had been then composed in Sanskrit, inaccessible to the atypical folks.
4. Kanakadasa was a outstanding member of the Dasakoota, a close-knit group of Haridasas. This unfastened congregation of like-minded folks was shaped by Vyasatheertha Swamiji, who was then additionally main a really completely different spiritual organisation on the similar time: the Vyasakoota, in Karnataka’s Hampi. Whereas the Vyasakoota consisted of upper-class pandits who held debates in Sanskrit, the Dasakoota broke down arid scholasticism of holy texts and sang within the language of the locals, thereby producing kinship with the plenty.
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5. Kanakadasa’s story of a go to to a Krishna temple in Udupi has been handed over generations. The clergymen of the temple prohibited him from getting into as he was from the Kuruba group. Nonetheless, as he was leaving dejectedly, it’s believed that God confirmed himself to Kanakadasa by means of a crack within the wall and turned to face him. Even at present, the principle door of the Krishna temple is completely closed and the idol of Lord Krishna faces the again of the temple, a documentary by actor and playwright Girish Karnad – Kanaka Purandara – confirmed. Furthermore, the crack within the wall has since then been refashioned right into a window referred to as ‘Kanakana kindi’, which means Kanaka’s window. Devotees to today go to Lord Krishna by means of this window.
Kanakadasa died in 1609.