The Kalahastisvara Satakamu is a collection of poems composed in Telugu by Dhurjati, who has been described as an ashtadiggaja in the Vijayanagara court of Krishnadevaraya.[1] The poems are dedicated to the form of Shiva venerated at the Kalahasti temple.[2] They are well-known by Telugu-speaking audiences.[3][4]
A Satakamu text generally comprises a collection of one hundred poems[3] in praise of a deity.[5] The manuscripts of this text contain somewhere between 21 and 129 poems.[2] Each poem ends with an invocation of Shiva, the god of Kalahasti.[2] The poems primarily concern devotion[2] to Shiva as a means to liberation from karma.[5]
After the introduction of the printing press in the nineteenth century, print copies of the already popular Kalahastisvara Satakamu circulated among Telugu audiences.[4] A selection of these poems has been translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and Hank Heifetz.[2][5] The collection was published by the University of California Press.[6]
References
- ↑ Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press; [copies can be had from: Government Publication Bureau, Andhra Pradesh](1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 For the Lord of the animals ; poems from the Telugu: the Kāḷahastīśvara śatakamu of Dhūrjaṭi{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of California Press(1987). ISBN 9780520056695
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Glory of India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Motilal Banarsides(1987)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu - ProQuest. www.proquest.com.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Review of Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia. Journal of the American Oriental Society({Template:Date).
- ↑ JAS volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter. The Journal of Asian Studies({Template:Date).