Works of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya facts for kids
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| ↙Poems | 28 | |
| ↙Plays | 2 | |
| ↙Music | 5 | |
| ↙Commentaries | 19 | |
| ↙Critiques | 6 | |
| ↙Discourses | 9 | |
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Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (better-known as Jagadguru Rambhadracharya or Swami Rambhadracharya) is a Hindu guru, Sanskrit scholar, writer, poet, play writer, composer, singer, philosopher and Katha artist. He is living in Chitrakoot, India. His works includes poems, plays, lectures, commentaries, religious speeches, and musical works of his works. He has written more than 90 works, including published books and unpublished hand written books, and four epic poems, a Hindi commentary on Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas, a rhythmic Sanskrit commentary on the Ashtadhyayi, and Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi sacred books. Many of his audio and video recordings have been released. He writes in Sanskrit, Hindi, Awadhi, Maithili, and many other languages. He is blind.
Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam is his most famous work. He won many awards for it like the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit. He has also been given many other honors and titles as a writer and poet, like Mahakavi and Kavikularatna.
His important literature works and musical works, grouped by their type, are listed below.
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Poems
Mahākāvyas (Epic poems)
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Epic poem made in 1,279 verses, which are separated into 15 cantos on the life of the rishi couple Vasishtha and Arundhati. | |
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Epic poem made of 2,121 verses in 40 Sanskrit and Prakrit metres, separated into 21 cantos of 101 verses each, with a Hindi commentary by the poet. Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit, Ramkrishna Jaidayal Dalmia Shreevani Alankaran, Banabhatta Award and Vachaspati Award. | |
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Epic poem made of 864 verses separated into 8 cantos of 108 verses each. This poems tells the story of the rishi Ashtavakra, who is shown as the flag carrier of disabled people. | |
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Sanskrit rhythmic epic poem, telling the Ramayana in 1,008 Sanskrit songs separated into 28 cantos of 36 songs each, based on traditional village music tunes. |
Khaṇḍakāvyas (Minor poems)
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Small poem on the character Vidura from Mahabharata. | |
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Small poem in two parts praising Krishna. | |
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Small poem on the character Shabari from Ramayana. | |
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Small poem on the works and life of the Indian freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad, with a Hindi commentary by Dr. Gita Devi Misra. | |
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Small poem on the river Sarayu that flows through Ayodhya. | |
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Small poem on the baby form of Rama made only in the short syllables of Sanskrit. | |
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Made of 501 verses separated in two parts and composed completely in the Mandākrānta metre, this mall poem tells the message sent by Rama through a bumblebee, living on the Pravarṣaṇa mountain in Kishkindha, to his wife Sita, who is captured by Ravana in Lanka. |
Patrakāvya (Letter poem)
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Letter poem; letter to Krishna from the curled woman who appeared in the Bhagavata Purana. |
Gītakāvyas (Rhythmic poems)
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Rhythmic poem. | |
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Rhythmic poem on 438 songs on Rama and Krishna. |
Rītikāvya (Procedure–era Hindi poem)
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Rītikāvya, made of 327 mixed verses, separated in three parts of 109 verses each, composed in six Prakrit metres. The verses tells different works of the child forms of Sita and Rama. |
Śatakakāvyas (Poems of one hundred verses)
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Poem of one hundred verses in the Arya metre. | |
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Poem of one hundred verses in praise of the goddess Chandi. | |
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Poem of one hundred verses in praise of Rama. | |
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Poem of one hundred verses in praise of Ganesha. | |
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Poem of one hundred verses in praise of signs of Rama's feet. |
Stotrakāvyas (Praises)
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Poem praising the kind look of Sita. | |
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Poem praising Sita. | |
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Poem praising the greatness of the river Ganges. | |
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Poem in eight verses praising Rama. | |
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Poem of eight Śikhariṇī metres, praising the birth of Rama by comparing baby Rama with eight Utprekṣā figures of speech respectively to the moon, a dark cloud, the ocean, an emerald, a Tamāla tree, Kamadeva, a blue lotus, and a bumblebee. With an Awadhi poem translation and Hindi commentary by the poet. |
Suprabhatam kāvya (Workships sung at morning)
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A suprabhatam directed to Sita and Rama, made of 40 verses composed in 8 Śārdūlavikrīḍita, 24 Vasantatilakā, 4 Sragdharā, and 4 Mālinī metres. With a Hindi translation by the poet. |
Bhāṣyakāvya (Commentary poem)
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Non-poetic commentary on the Sutras of the Ashtadhyayi. D Litt research paper. |
Plays
Nāṭakakāvya (Play poem)
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Single–act play on the success of Rama. |
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Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī
Rambhadracharya made Sanskrit commentaries named Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on the Prasthanatrayi – Brahma Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita, and eleven Upanishads. These commentaries were released on 10 April 1998 by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee. He made Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on Narada Bhakti Sutra in 1991. Rambhadracharya then renewed—after five hundred years—the tradition of Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi. His commentary was also the second Sanskrit commentary on Prasthanatrayi of Ramananda Sampradaya, an the first was made by Ramananda himself and it was named Ānandabhāṣyam. Rambhadracharya's commentary in Sanskrit on the Prasthanatrayi was the first written in almost 600 years.
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Other Sanskrit commentaries
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Reviews
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Discussion on the non–Paninian uses in the Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa. PhD research paper. | |
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Examination on the episode of the unnamed devotee in Ayodhya Kand of Ramcharitmanas. | |
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Examination on the status of the cow in Hinduism. | |
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Research on the description of Krishna in the works of Tulsidas. | |
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Review which says that the episode of exile of Sita is a later addition of Valmiki in the Ramayana. | |
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Examination on the Rāsapañcādhyāyī section, the five chapters about the dance of Krishna with the Gopis, of the Bhagavata Purana. |
Speeches
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Critical edition of Ramcharitmanas
Rambhadracharya's most controversial work was the critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas. It was published as the Tulsi Peeth edition. It was said that he changed the epic, but the dispute ended when Rambhadracharya said sorry for any problem caused by the publication. A writ was also filed against him but it was not accepted. This edition was published in 2005 by Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas.
Audio and video
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Audio CD with eight Bhajans (worships) worshiped to Rama. Composed, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. | |
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Audio CD with seven Bhajans worshiped to Krishna. Composed, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. | |
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Audio CD with six Bhajans worshiped to Hanuman, and composed by Tulsidas. Set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya. | |
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Audio CD of Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam, a Suprabhata poem. Composed, set to music, and sung in the Vairagi Raga by Rambhadracharya. | |
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DVD with a musical expression of and commentary on the Sundar Kand of Ramcharitmanas. Spoken, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. |
Timeline of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya's works
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Includes all 13 Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī. |
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