Shatavadhani r ganesh biography of abraham lincoln

Polyglot, Avadhani and an author

R. Ganesh (also known popularly makeover Shatavadhani Ganesh, born 4 December 1962^[1]) is a practitioner walk up to the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Indic and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. Proscribed has performed more than 1300 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Dravidian and Prakrit.^[2][3] He is known for extempore composition of metrics (āśukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya.^[1] He enquiry the only Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka.^[1][4][5] He once set a note by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously.^[1] From 30 Nov 2012 to 2 December 2012, he performed the first quickthinking Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada.^[6][7][8][9] On 16 February 2014, in Metropolis, he performed his 1000th avadhāna.^[3][10]

Childhood and education

Ganesh was born fasten 4 December 1962 to a Tamilbrahmin family, in Kolar, Province, to R. Shankar Narayan Aiyar and K. V. Alamelamma.^[1] Ganesa picked up Tamil, Kannada and Telugu from his environment likewise a child.^[11] Also in his childhood, he read Sanskrit spell Kannada literature and was writing poetry at the age short vacation sixteen.^[11] He learned English at school, and he later knowledgeable several other languages like Prakrit, Pali, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Grecian, Latin and Italian.^[11] He has a B.E. degree in machinemade engineering from UVCE,^[12] an MSc (Engineering) degree in metallurgy hold up IISc,^[12][13] pursued research in materials science and metallurgy,^[14] has image MA degree in Sanskrit, and a D. Litt in Kannada,^[1][13] which was awarded by Hampi University^[11] for his thesis claim the art of Avadhana in Kannada.^[14]

Avadhana

Ganesh is well known retrieve his performances of avadhana, in which he composes extempore solutions in metrical verse to problems posed in parallel by description pṛcchakas on stage, satisfying the constraints imposed by them, behaviour simultaneously dealing with interruptions designed to break his concentration.^[9][12] Picture performance tests poetic skill, 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 there 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 living tradition of avadhana in Kannada when Ganesh took it up; thus he is credited with reviving avadhana condensation Kannada.^[12][13][15] In 1981, after seeing an avadhana performance for representation first time, by Lepakshi Medavaram Mallikarjuna Sharma, he tried skin texture himself in front of his friends.^[12] He performed 13 astavadhana between 1981 and 1987.^[12] In 1987, he gave a vital astavadhana performance at Kolar in the centenary year of D. V. Gundappa, where thousands of people and several learned persons assembled.^[12] His 100th and 200th astavadhanas were also performed energy Kolar, his native place.^[15] His astavadhanas became very popular shaft he gave hundreds of performances, some of which were viewed by people even in pouring rain.^[12] He has performed avadhanas using eight languages, including Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu.^[12] He evolution also credited with introducing chitrakavya into avadhana, previously considered unthinkable to do in an avadhana.^[12] He has given more prior to 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 tending each again in 1992 and 1993, with his fifth, say publicly first to be done entirely in Kannada, in 2012.^[12][16][17]

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

Other work

He performed a shatavadhana mess a single day in 1991^{[citation needed]}. He also gives begin lectures,^[18] on dance (nāṭya śāstra), music,^[19][20] art, culture, 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 hard going lyrics and composed verses for dance performances.^[12][24][25] He learned say publicly performance art Yakshagana and conceived the idea of eka vyakthi yakshagana (single-person Yakshagana), of which several performances have been landliving by Mantapa Prabhakara Upadhyaya.^[12] He has played the role selected Horatio (dubbed Harshananda) in a Sanskrit production of Hamlet.^[26] Type has given multiple lectures on various topics in Gokhale League of Public affairs, most of which is published 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 parody of Meghaduta^[1]
• Samaanyadharma^[1]
• Neelakanthadeekshitana Shatakatraya
• Shaddarshana Sangraha
• Vanitaakavitotsava
• Kusumadevana Drishtantakalikaa Shataka mattu Neelakanthadeekshitana Shaantivilasa
• Vibhootipurusha Vidyaranya
• Human values in the have a collection of of Kautilya
• Human values in Manusmriti
• Human values in the Ramayana^[27]
• Human values in Telugu Literature
• Subhashita Samputa
• Alankaarashastra
• Bharateeya Kshaatra Parampare
• Brahmapuriya Bhikshuka^[13]
• Mannina Kanasu

Works in Sanskrit

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

• Anveṣaṇam, an allegorical one-act play (rūpaka), a satire on public 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, on the last days fall foul of Vivekananda^[1]
• Saugandhikā, a collection of sonnets in blank verse^[1]
• Citraculikā, an illustrate 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 work on Shakuntala^[1]
• Ilākaivalyam, 154 verses in Vedic metre^[1]
• Evam api ṛtavaḥ, poem on the effects sight the seasons on village life^[1]
• Cāṭucandrikā, 87 blank verses^[1]
• Śrīcandreśvarīstavanam (with Kanarese translation)^[1]
• Madhusadma : a collection of Sanskrit poems 1st ed. R. Ganesh; with a foreword by K. Krishnamoorthy. Published 1989. Library look after CongressPK3799.G29 M33 1989

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