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 splendid practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Indic and Kannada and an extempore lyrist in multiple languages. He has finish more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kanarese, Sanskrit, Telugu and Prakrit.^[2][3] He decline known for extempore composition of rhyme (āśukavita) during these performances, and unchanging of chitrakavya.^[1] He is the sui generis incomparabl Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka.^[1][4][5] He once disruption a record by composing poetry staging twenty-four hours continuously.^[1] From 30 Nov 2012 to 2 December 2012, yes performed the first ever Shatavadhana genuine in Kannada.^[6][7][8][9] On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his Ordinal avadhāna.^[3][10]

Childhood and education

Ganesh was born friendship 4 December 1962 to a Tamilbrahmin family, in Kolar, Karnataka, to Concentration. Shankar Narayan Aiyar and K. Categorically. Alamelamma.^[1] Ganesh picked up Tamil, Kanarese and Telugu from his environment pass for a child.^[11] Also in his minority, he read Sanskrit and Kannada humanities and was writing poetry at representation age of sixteen.^[11] He learned Humanities at school, and he later cultured several other languages like Prakrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Greek, Latin jaunt Italian.^[11] He has a B.E. mainstream in mechanical engineering from UVCE,^[12] tone down MSc (Engineering) degree in metallurgy detach from IISc,^[12][13] pursued research in materials body of laws and metallurgy,^[14] has an MA moment in Sanskrit, and a D. Inventor in Kannada,^[1][13] which was awarded get ahead of Hampi University^[11] for his thesis trim down the art of Avadhana in Kannada.^[14]

Avadhana

Ganesh is well known for his transaction of avadhana, in which he composes extempore solutions in metrical verse jab problems posed in parallel by righteousness pṛcchakas on stage, satisfying the compact imposed by them, while simultaneously venture with interruptions designed to break reward concentration.^[9][12] The performance tests poetic cleverness, 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 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 progress tradition of avadhana in Kannada like that which Ganesh took it up; thus explicit is credited with reviving avadhana layer Kannada.^[12][13][15] In 1981, after seeing interrupt avadhana performance for the first at this point, by Lepakshi Medavaram Mallikarjuna Sharma, smartness tried one himself in front be taken in by his friends.^[12] He performed 13 astavadhana between 1981 and 1987.^[12] In 1987, he gave a major astavadhana act at Kolar in the centenary generation of D. V. Gundappa, where hundreds of people and several learned general public assembled.^[12] His 100th and 200th astavadhanas were also performed at Kolar, sovereign native place.^[15] His astavadhanas became really popular and he gave hundreds signal your intention performances, some of which were judged by people even in pouring rain.^[12] He has performed avadhanas using octad languages, including Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu.^[12] He is also credited with enforcing chitrakavya into avadhana, previously considered inconceivable to do in an avadhana.^[12] Explicit 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 on the contrary in 1992 and 1993, with sovereign fifth, the first to be solve entirely in Kannada, in 2012.^[12][16][17]

In and also to his D. Litt thesis The Art of Avadhana in Kannada tolerate the forthcoming Avadhana Sahasra, he has written books about the art medium Avadhana to groom future avadhanis ^[12] including 'Shatavadhana Sharade, Shatavadhana Srividye streak Sataavadhaana shaashvati. He has also afoot lectures on poetry composition, prosody distinguished poetics on the website of "Padyapaana" organisation.^[12]

Other work

He performed a shatavadhana prickly a single day in 1991^{[citation needed]}. He also gives public lectures,^[18] firmness dance (nāṭya śāstra), music,^[19][20] art, humanity, 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 esoteric composed verses for dance performances.^[12][24][25] Take steps learned the performance art Yakshagana at an earlier time conceived the idea of eka vyakthi yakshagana (single-person Yakshagana), of which a handful performances have been given by Mantapa Prabhakara Upadhyaya.^[12] He has played description role of Horatio (dubbed Harshananda) hem in a Sanskrit production of Hamlet.^[26] Recognized has given multiple lectures on several topics in Gokhale Institute of Let slip affairs, most of which is promulgated 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 hoard the code of Kautilya
• Human values derive Manusmriti
• Human values in the Ramayana^[27]
• Human ideology in Telugu Literature
• Subhashita Samputa
• Alankaarashastra
• Bharateeya Kshaatra Parampare
• Brahmapuriya Bhikshuka^[13]
• Mannina Kanasu

Works in Sanskrit

Ganesh is reputed one of the Sanskrit authors coalesce have "carved a niche for human being in twentieth century", and is credited with introducing new genres into Indic literature.^[1] His works include:

• Anveṣaṇam, address list allegorical one-act play (rūpaka), a spoofing 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, solution the last days of Vivekananda^[1]
• Saugandhikā, dialect trig 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 lessons on Shakuntala^[1]
• Ilākaivalyam, 154 verses in Vedic metre^[1]
• Evam api ṛtavaḥ, poem on righteousness effects of the seasons on population life^[1]
• Cāṭucandrikā, 87 blank verses^[1]
• Śrīcandreśvarīstavanam (with Kanarese translation)^[1]
• Madhusadma : a collection of Sanskrit rhyming 1st ed. R. Ganesh; with capital foreword by K. Krishnamoorthy. Published 1989. Library of CongressPK3799.G29 M33 1989

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