![]() ![]() The author Prativadi Bhayamkara Acarya alias Annan of Kancheepuram who flourished from A.D. I have great pleasure in writing a Foreword to this useful and authentic edition of Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam, one of the earliest and most popular Stotra-s of the Suprabhata genre on Sri Venkatesa, the deity of the ancient Visnu temple at Tirumalai. For all the hard work done, my gratitude to him and to his wife cannot be conveyed sufficiently in words, but I am indeed very grateful to both of them. Yet, he has a good knowledge of Sanskrit and has a deep interest in our culture, customs, traditions, literature, religion and philosophy. ![]() ![]() Sri Bala Madhava belongs, by profession, to the field of engineering. Without this abundant and unstinting assistance in ways more than one, from him and his wife, Srimati Sarojini Bala Madhava, this humble work would not have seen the light of day. My friend Sri Bala Madhava very kindly helped me with the laborious task of taking down the dictation, verifying the sources, typing and retyping (several times) both Sanskrit and English portions with a view to having the entire material as free from mistakes as possible. It also has some cross-references, and information about the author, his date and the times to which the composition belonged. What is presented here is not a literal translation, but it contains, apart from the meanings of the verses, on occasions some brief discussions touching on the points of the Visistadvaita of Sri Ramanujacarya. I do not know the reason for or the significance of this reference. In some other parts of India he is also referred to as Balaji (Venkatesvara). The great temple of Sri Venkatesvara is situated on the regional languages of Telugu and Tamil as Tirumala and Tirumalai ( and sometimes as Tirupati though this is a town located lower at the foot of the hills- adivaram). The entire composition is recited every day early in the morning, in front of Sri Venkatesvara, who is commonly known among the people, particularly of South India, as the Lord of the Seven Hills. The work contains four segments, of which the first in the Suprabhatam and then come the Stotram, Prapatti and Mangalasasanam. Sriharicarita Mahakavya of Srihari Padmanabha Sastrin (ALS 102) on the story of Sri Rama.ĭasarupaka of Dhanamjaya (ALS 97, out of print).Īn exposition in English is presented in the following pages of the work that is popularly known as Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam. Udararaghava of Sakalya Malla (ALS 118), a Mahakavya with three commentaries dealing with the story of the Ramayana. ![]() Rasarnavasudhakara of Simhabhupala (ALS 110), an authoritative work on Indian aesthetics. Among his other publications in the Adyar Library Series are: VENKATACHARYA, Emeritus Professor of Toronto University, is a well-known traditional Sanskrit scholar, and an authority on grammar and literature, as well as Visistadvaita. ![]()
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