Guest guest Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 A rhyming couplet of poems called "Dwipada" in Telugu written by Tallapaka Chinnanna, grandson of Annamacharya, enabled us to learn about Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya, his life and works. Annamacharya was born on Vaisakhapoornima in the year Sarwadhari (May 9, 1408) in Tallapaka, a remote village in Andhra Pradesh, and lived for 95 years until Phalguna Bahula Dwadasi (12th day after full moon) in the year Dhundhubhi (February 23, 1503). Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya, the contemporary to Bhakt Kabir of the 15th century, is the earliest known musician of South India to compose devotional songs called "Sankeerthanas" in praise of the Almighty Sri Venkateswara. Aadi Shakthi is also known as Bala Tripura Sundari and hence the name "Balaji" for the Almighty Sri Venkateswara.Annamacharya composed and sang thirty two thousand (32,000) Sankeerthanas, 12 Satakas (sets of hundred verses), Ramayana in the form of Dwipada (rhyming couplets), Sankirtana Lakshanam, Sringara Manjari and Venkatachala Mahathyam. His works were in Telugu, Sanskrit and a few other languages of India. His Sankeerthanas pattern later shaped the keerthanas of the Carnatic music's trinity, viz., Thyagaraja, Deekshithaar, and Shyama Sasthry. Annamacharya was not a mere musician but he was the combined force of a musician, poet, prophet, guru and a social reformer. Annamacharya's disciples wrote the Sankeerthanas on palm leaves while he was singing extemporised Sankeerthanas in a state of bliss. Later his son Tirumalacharya got them engraved on copper plates.But for reasons not known, most of these copper plates lay hidden in a rock built cell opposite to Hundi in the Tirumala temple unnoticed for over 400 years. In 1922, twenty five hundred copper plates, comprising of about 14000 Sankeerthanas and a few other works, were found in the rock built cell. For those who wants to listen Annamacharya's Sankirtanas on this important occasion, please click to pick and choose the one you want to download to listen. There are about a few hundred! http://www.tirumala.org/music1.htm Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Join them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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