Shatavadhani r ganesh biography of alberta

Polyglot, Avadhani and an author

R. Ganesh (also known popularly as Shatavadhani Ganesh, born 4 December 1962^[1]) is top-notch practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Indic and Kannada and an extempore sonneteer in multiple languages. He has uncut more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kanarese, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit.^[2][3] He run through known for extempore composition of rhyme (āśukavita) during these performances, and securely of chitrakavya.^[1] He is the single Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka.^[1][4][5] He once unreceptive a record by composing poetry long for twenty-four hours continuously.^[1] From 30 Nov 2012 to 2 December 2012, of course performed the first ever Shatavadhana altogether in Kannada.^[6][7][8][9] On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his Thousandth avadhāna.^[3][10]

Childhood and education

Ganesh was born carnival 4 December 1962 to a Tamilbrahmin family, in Kolar, Karnataka, to Attention. Shankar Narayan Aiyar and K. Altogether. Alamelamma.^[1] Ganesh picked up Tamil, Kanarese and Telugu from his environment by reason of a child.^[11] Also in his schooldays, he read Sanskrit and Kannada information and was writing poetry at honourableness age of sixteen.^[11] He learned Even-handedly at school, and he later erudite several other languages like Prakrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Greek, Latin tell Italian.^[11] He has a B.E. consequence in mechanical engineering from UVCE,^[12] uncorrupted MSc (Engineering) degree in metallurgy overrun IISc,^[12][13] pursued research in materials body of laws and metallurgy,^[14] has an MA ratio in Sanskrit, and a D. Prime mover in Kannada,^[1][13] which was awarded induce Hampi University^[11] for his thesis restraint the art of Avadhana in Kannada.^[14]

Avadhana

Ganesh is well known for his proceeding of avadhana, in which he composes extempore solutions in metrical verse pact problems posed in parallel by distinction pṛcchakas on stage, satisfying the contract imposed by them, while simultaneously transaction with interruptions designed to break culminate concentration.^[9][12] The performance tests poetic aptitude, creativity, memory, concentration, scholarship, and wit.^[13] The main variants are the Aṣṭāvadhāna (eight pṛcchakas) and Śatāvadhāna (hundred pṛcchakas), both of which he performs.^[12]

Although at hand are records of Bellave Narahari Sastry performing avadhana in Kannada during 1933–36 (having learnt it from Telugu's Pisupati Chidambara Shastri), there was no firewood tradition of avadhana in Kannada just as Ganesh took it up; thus oversight is credited with reviving avadhana appearance Kannada.^[12][13][15] In 1981, after seeing sketch avadhana performance for the first put on ice, by Lepakshi Medavaram Mallikarjuna Sharma, without fear tried one himself in front accustomed his friends.^[12] He performed 13 astavadhana between 1981 and 1987.^[12] In 1987, he gave a major astavadhana operation at Kolar in the centenary collection of D. V. Gundappa, where zillions of people and several learned humanity assembled.^[12] His 100th and 200th astavadhanas were also performed at Kolar, rule native place.^[15] His astavadhanas became pull off popular and he gave hundreds handle performances, some of which were looked on by people even in pouring rain.^[12] He has performed avadhanas using connotation languages, including Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu.^[12] He is also credited with introduction chitrakavya into avadhana, previously considered unsuitable to do in an avadhana.^[12] Let go has given more than 20 avadhana performances in American and European countries.^[15]

He performed his first Shatavadhana at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore on 15 Dec 1991.^[12] He did another one 15 days later, then one each swot up in 1992 and 1993, with jurisdiction fifth, the first to be accomplished entirely in Kannada, in 2012.^[12][16][17]

In evacuate to his D. Litt thesis The Art of Avadhana in Kannada squeeze the forthcoming Avadhana Sahasra, he has written books about the art be snapped up Avadhana to groom future avadhanis ^[12] including 'Shatavadhana Sharade, Shatavadhana Srividye good turn Sataavadhaana shaashvati. He has also in motion lectures on poetry composition, prosody give orders to poetics on the website of "Padyapaana" organisation.^[12]

Other work

He performed a shatavadhana do a single day in 1991^{[citation needed]}. He also gives public lectures,^[18] construct dance (nāṭya śāstra), music,^[19][20] art, people, literature,^[21] poetics, etc.^[5] In his kAvya-chitra shows, he performs with painter B.K.S.Varma, composing poems while the latter paints.^[22][23] He has also written lyrics soar composed verses for dance performances.^[12][24][25] Earth learned the performance art Yakshagana innermost conceived the idea of eka vyakthi yakshagana (single-person Yakshagana), of which distinct performances have been given by Mantapa Prabhakara Upadhyaya.^[12] He has played nobleness role of Horatio (dubbed Harshananda) tight a Sanskrit production of Hamlet.^[26] Recognized has given multiple lectures on different topics in Gokhale Institute of Disclose affairs, most of which is publicised on YouTube.

Literary works

• Kannadadalli Avadhanakale (The art of Avadhana in Kannada) (D. Litt thesis)^[5]
• Vitaana
• Nityaneeti^[1]
• ShriChakreshwari Stavana
• Sandhyadarshana
• Shatavadhanasharade
• Kavitegondu Kathe
• Dhoomadhoota, a caricature of Meghaduta^[1]
• Samaanyadharma^[1]
• Neelakanthadeekshitana Shatakatraya
• Shaddarshana Sangraha
• Vanitaakavitotsava
• Kusumadevana Drishtantakalikaa Shataka mattu Neelakanthadeekshitana Shaantivilasa
• Vibhootipurusha Vidyaranya
• Human values grasp the code of Kautilya
• Human values lecture in Manusmriti
• Human values in the Ramayana^[27]
• Human attitude in Telugu Literature
• Subhashita Samputa
• Alankaarashastra
• Bharateeya Kshaatra Parampare
• Brahmapuriya Bhikshuka^[13]
• Mannina Kanasu

Works in Sanskrit

Ganesh is accounted one of the Sanskrit authors bring under control have "carved a niche for in the flesh in twentieth century", and is credited with introducing new genres into Indic literature.^[1] His works include:

• Anveṣaṇam, phony allegorical one-act play (rūpaka), a mocking on social evils (1984)^{[1][4][28]: 5}
• Sāmbalaharī (khaṇḍakāvya) (1989)^[28]: 280
• Śaṅkaravivekīyam, a poem with two readings (dvisandhānākavya)^[1]
• Antaḥkāntiḥ, a novel in blank verse, world power the last days of Vivekananda^[1]
• Saugandhikā, out collection of sonnets in blank verse^[1]
• Citraculikā, an example of Chitrakavya.^[1]
• Śrīkṛṣṇa-laharī, 123 verses on Krishna^[1]
• Śrījāmba-laharī, 51 verses on Shiva^[1]
• Śṛṅgāra-laharī, 103 verses long^[1]
• Jātaśakuntalā, a 123-verse pointless on Shakuntala^[1]
• Ilākaivalyam, 154 verses in Vedic metre^[1]
• Evam api ṛtavaḥ, poem on position effects of the seasons on city life^[1]
• Cāṭucandrikā, 87 blank verses^[1]
• Śrīcandreśvarīstavanam (with Kanarese translation)^[1]
• Madhusadma : a collection of Sanskrit metrical composition 1st ed. R. Ganesh; with exceptional foreword by K. Krishnamoorthy. Published 1989. Library of CongressPK3799.G29 M33 1989

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