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Rambhadracharya

January 06, 2023

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya[α][4] (born Pandit Giridhar on 14 January 1950)[β] is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India.[5] He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharya,[γ] and has held this title since 1988.[6][7][8]

Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
Jagadguru Rambhadracharya delivering a sermon on 25 October 2009 in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Personal
Born
Giridhar Mishra

(1950-01-14) 14 January 1950 (age 72)
Shandikhurd, Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India
ReligionHinduism
SectRamanandi sect
Signature
Founder of
PhilosophyVishishtadvaita Vedanta
Religious career
Guru
  • Ishvardas (Mantra)
  • Ramprasad Tripathi (Sanskrit)
  • Ramcharandas (Sampradaya)
Disciples
Literary worksŚrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on Prasthanatrayi, Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam, Bhṛṅgadūtam, Gītarāmāyaṇam, Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam, Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudi, Aṣṭāvakra, and others
HonoursDharmacakravartī, Mahāmahopādhyāya, Śrīcitrakūṭatulasīpīṭhādhīśvara, Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya, Mahākavi, Prasthānatrayībhāṣyakāra, and others
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Quotation

Humanity is my temple, and I am its worshiper. The disabled are my supreme God, and I am their grace seeker.[3]

Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Saint Tulsidas.[9][10] He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Chitrakoot, which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to four types of disabled students.[5][11][12][13][14] Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months, had no formal education until the age of seventeen years, and has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose.[15]

Rambhadracharya can speak 22 languages and is a spontaneous poet[δ] and writer in Sanskrit, Hindi, Awadhi, Maithili, and several other languages.[16][17] He has authored more than 100 books and 50 papers,[11][18][19] including four epic poems,[ε] Hindi commentaries on Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa, a Sanskrit commentary in verse on the Ashtadhyayi, and Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures.[20][21] He is acknowledged for his knowledge in diverse fields including Sanskrit grammar, Nyaya and Vedanta.[22] He is regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Tulsidas in India,[23] and is the editor of a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas.[24] He is a Katha artist for the Ramayana and the Bhagavata. His Katha programmes are held regularly in different cities in India and other countries, and are telecast on television channels like Shubh TV, Sanskar TV and Sanatan TV.[25][26] He is also a leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).[27]

Birth and early life

 
An old photograph of Shachidevi Mishra, mother of Rambhadracharya

Jagadguru Rambhadracharya was born to Pandit shri Rajdev Mishra and shrimati Shachidevi Mishra in a Saryupareen Brahmin family of the Vasishtha Gotra (lineage of the sage Vasishtha) in Shandikhurd village in the Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[28] He was born on Makara Sankranti day, 14 January 1950.[11][14][29][30] Born to mother Shachidevi and father Pandit Rajdev Mishra, he was named Giridhar by his great aunt, a paternal cousin of his paternal grandfather, Pandit Suryabali Mishra. The great aunt was a devotee of Mirabai, a female saint of the Bhakti era in medieval India, who used the name Giridhar to address the god Krishna in her compositions.[16][31]

Loss of eyesight

Giridhar lost his eyesight at the age of two months. On 24 March 1950, his eyes were infected by trachoma. There were no advanced facilities for treatment in the village, so he was taken to an elderly woman in a nearby village who was known to cure trachoma boils to provide relief. The woman applied a paste of myrobalan to Giridhar's eyes to burst the lumps, but his eyes started bleeding, resulting in the loss of his eyesight.[14][29][30] His family took him to the King George Hospital in Lucknow, where his eyes were treated for 21 days, but his sight could not be restored.[29] Various Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Allopathic, and other practitioners were approached in Sitapur, Lucknow, and Bombay, but to no avail.[31] Rambhadracharya has been blind ever since. He cannot read or write, as he does not use Braille; he learns by listening and composes by dictating to scribes.[15]

Childhood accident

In June 1953, at a juggler's monkey dance show in the village, the children—including Giridhar—suddenly ran away when the monkey began to touch them. Giridhar fell into a small dry well and was trapped for some time, until a teenage girl rescued him.[29] His grandfather told him that his life was saved because he had learned the following line of a verse in the Ramcharitmanas (1.192.4), from the episode of the manifestation of the god Rama:[29][32]

यह चरित जे गावहिं हरिपद पावहिं ते न परहिं भवकूपा ॥
yaha carita je gāvahı̐ haripada pāvahı̐ te na parahı̐ bhavakūpā ॥

Those who sing this lay attain to the feet of Hari (Vishnu) and never fall into the well of birth and death.

Giridhar's grandfather asked him to recite the verse always, and from then on, Giridhar has followed the practice of reciting it every time he takes water or food.[29]

First composition

Giridhar's initial education came from his paternal grandfather, as his father worked in Bombay. In the afternoons, his grandfather would narrate to him various episodes of the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, and devotional works like Vishramsagar, Sukhsagar, Premsagar and Brajvilas. At the age of three, Giridhar composed his first piece of poetry—in Awadhi (a dialect of Hindi)—and recited it to his grandfather. In this verse, Krishna's foster mother Yashoda is fighting with a Gopi (milkmaid) for hurting Krishna.[29][31]

Devanagari
मेरे गिरिधारी जी से काहे लरी।
तुम तरुणी मेरो गिरिधर बालक काहे भुजा पकरी॥
सुसुकि सुसुकि मेरो गिरिधर रोवत तू मुसुकात खरी॥
तू अहिरिन अतिसय झगराऊ बरबस आय खरी॥
गिरिधर कर गहि कहत जसोदा आँचर ओट करी॥

IAST
mere giridhārī jī se kāhe larī।
tuma taruṇī mero giridhara bālaka kāhe bhujā pakarī॥
susuki susuki mero giridhara rovata tū musukāta kharī॥
tū ahirina atisaya jhagarāū barabasa āya kharī॥
giridhara kara gahi kahata jasodā ā̐cara oṭa karī॥

"'Why did you fight with my Giridhara (Krishna)? You are a young maiden, and my Giridhara (Krishna) is but a child, why did you hold his arm? My Giridhara (Krishna) is crying, sobbing repeatedly, and you stand there smirking! O Ahir lady (cowherd girl), you are excessively inclined to quarrel, and come and stand here uninvited' – so says Yashoda, holding on to the hand of Giridhara (Krishna) and covering [her face] with the end of her Sari", sings Giridhara (the poet).

Mastering Gita and Ramcharitmanas

At the age of five, Giridhar memorised the entire Bhagavad Gita, consisting of around 700 verses with chapter and verse numbers, in 15 days, with the help of his neighbour, Pandit Murlidhar Mishra. On Janmashtami day in 1955, he recited the entire Bhagavad Gita.[14][29][31][33][34] He released the first Braille version of the scripture, with the original Sanskrit text and a Hindi commentary, at New Delhi on 30 November 2007, 52 years after memorising the Gita.[35][36] When Giridhar was seven, he memorised the entire Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, consisting of around 10,900 verses with chapter and verse numbers, in 60 days, assisted by his grandfather. On Rama Navami day in 1957, he recited the entire epic while fasting.[14][29][31][34] Later, Giridhar went on to memorise the Vedas, the Upanishads, works of Sanskrit grammar, the Bhagavata Purana, all the works of Tulsidas, and many other works in Sanskrit and Indian literature.[31][33]

Upanayana and Katha discourses

Giridhar's Upanayana (sacred thread ceremony) was performed on Nirjala Ekadashi (the Ekadashi falling in the bright half of the lunar month of Jyeshtha) of 24 June 1961. On this day, besides being given the Gayatri Mantra, he was initiated (given Diksha) into the mantra of Rama by Pandit Ishvardas Maharaj of Ayodhya. Having mastered the Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas at a very young age, Giridhar started visiting the Katha programmes held near his village once every three years in the intercalary month of Purushottama. The third time he attended, he presented a Katha on Ramcharitmanas, which was acclaimed by several famous exponents of the Katha art.[31]

Discrimination by family

When Giridhar was eleven, he was stopped from joining his family in a wedding procession. His family thought that his presence would be a bad omen for the marriage.[29][30] This incident left a strong impression on Giridhar; he says at the beginning of his autobiography:[37]

I am the same person who was considered to be inauspicious for accompanying a marriage party. ... I am the same person who currently inaugurates the biggest of marriage parties or welfare ceremonies. What is all this? It is all due to the grace of God which turns a straw into a vajra and a vajra into a straw.

Formal education

Schooling

 
A young Giridhar Mishra in an undated photo

Although Giridhar did not have any formal schooling until the age of seventeen years, he had learned many literary works as a child by listening to them. His family wished him to become a Kathavachak (a Katha artist) but Giridhar wanted to pursue his studies. His father explored possibilities for his education in Varanasi and thought of sending him to a special school for blind students. Giridhar's mother refused to send him there, saying that blind children were not treated well at the school.[30] On 7 July 1967 Giridhar joined the Adarsh Gaurishankar Sanskrit College in the nearby Sujanganj village of Jaunpur to study Sanskrit Vyakarana (grammar), Hindi, English, Maths, History, and Geography.[38] In his autobiography he recalls this day as the day when the "Golden Journey" of his life began.[39] With an ability to memorise material by listening to it just once, Giridhar has not used Braille or other aids to study.[15] In three months, he had memorised and mastered the entire Laghusiddhāntakaumudī of Varadaraja.[38] He was top of his class for four years, and passed the Uttara Madhyama (higher secondary) examination in Sanskrit with first class and distinction.[34]

First Sanskrit composition

At the Adarsh Gaurishankar Sanskrit College, Giridhar learnt the eight Ganas of Sanskrit prosody while studying Chandaprabhā, a work on Sanskrit prosody. The next day, he composed his first Sanskrit verse, in the Bhujaṅgaprayāta metre.[38]

Devanagari
महाघोरशोकाग्निनाऽऽतप्यमानं
पतन्तं निरासारसंसारसिन्धौ ।
अनाथं जडं मोहपाशेन बद्धं
प्रभो पाहि मां सेवकक्लेशहर्त्तः ॥

IAST
mahāghoraśokāgninā'tapyamānaṃ
patantaṃ nirāsārasaṃsārasindhau ।
nāthaṃ jaḍaṃ mohapāśena baddhaṃ
prabho pāhi māṃ sevakakleśaharttaḥ ॥

O omnipotent Lord, remover of the distress of your worshippers! Protect me, who is being consumed by the extremely dreadful fire of sorrows, who is helplessly falling in the ocean of the mundane world, who is without any protector, who is ignorant, and who is bonded by the shackles of delusion.

Graduation and masters

In 1971 Giridhar enrolled at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi for higher studies in Vyakarana.[38] He topped the final examination for the Shastri (Bachelor of Arts)[40] degree in 1974, and then enrolled for the Acharya (Master of Arts)[40] degree at the same institute.[15] While pursuing his master's degree, he visited New Delhi to participate in various national competitions at the All-India Sanskrit Conference, where he won five out of the eight gold medals—in Vyakarana, Samkhya, Nyaya, Vedanta, and Sanskrit Antakshari.[6][15] Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, presented the five gold medals, along with the Chalvaijayanti trophy for Uttar Pradesh, to Giridhar.[34] Impressed by his abilities, Gandhi offered to send him at her own expense to the United States for treatment for his eyes, but Giridhar turned down this offer, replying with an extemporaneous Sanskrit verse.[15][41]

Devanagari
किं दृष्टव्यं पतितजगति व्याप्तदोषेऽप्यसत्ये
मायाचाराव्रततनुभृतां पापराजद्विचारे ।
दृष्टव्योऽसौ चिकुरनिकुरैः पूर्णवक्त्रारविन्दः
पूर्णानन्दो धृतशिशुतनुः रामचन्द्रो मुकुन्दः ॥

IAST
kiṃ dṛṣṭavyaṃ patitajagati vyāptadoṣe'pyasatye
māyācārāvratatanubhṛtāṃ pāparājadvicāre ।
dṛṣṭavyo'sau cikuranikuraiḥ pūrṇavaktrāravindaḥ
pūrṇānando dhṛtaśiśutanuḥ rāmacandro mukundaḥ ॥

What is to be seen in this fallen world, which is false and filled with vices, is full of disputes and is governed by the sins of deceitful and wicked humans? Only Rama is worth seeing, whose flocks of hair cover his lotus-like face, who is completely blissful, who has the form of a child, and who is the giver of liberation.

In 1976 Giridhar topped the final Acharya examinations in Vyakarana, winning seven gold medals and the Chancellor's gold medal.[34] In a rare achievement, although he had only enrolled for a master's degree in Vyakarana, he was declared Acharya of all subjects taught at the university on 30 April 1976.[15]

Doctorate and post-doctorate

After completing his master's degree, Giridhar enrolled for the doctoral Vidyavaridhi (PhD)[42] degree at the same institute, under Pandit Ramprasad Tripathi.[15] He received a research fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), but even so, he faced financial hardship during the next five years.[15] He completed his Vidyavaridhi degree in Sanskrit grammar on 14 October 1981.[15] His dissertation was titled Adhyātmarāmāyaṇe'pāṇinīyaprayogānāṃ Vimarśaḥ, or Deliberation on the non-Paninian usages in the Adhyatma Ramayana.[43] The thesis was authored in only thirteen days in 1981.[43] On completion of his doctorate, the UGC offered him the position of head of the Vyakarana department of the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. However, Giridhar did not accept; he decided to devote his life to the service of religion, society, and those with disabilities.[15]

On 9 May 1997, Giridhar (now known as Rambhadracharya) was awarded the post-doctorate Vachaspati (DLitt)[40][42] degree by Sampurnanand Sanskrit University for his 2000-page Sanskrit dissertation Pāṇinīyāṣṭādhyāyyāḥ Pratisūtraṃ Śābdabodhasamīkṣā, or Investigation into verbal knowledge of every Sūtra of the Ashtadhyayi of Panini.[38] The degree was presented to him by K. R. Narayanan, then President of India.[44] In this work, Rambhadracharya explained each aphorism of the grammar of Panini in Sanskrit verses.[38]

Later life

1979–1988

Virakta Diksha

In 1976 Giridhar narrated a Katha on Ramcharitmanas to Swami Karpatri, who advised him not to marry, to stay a lifelong Brahmachari (celibate bachelor) and to take initiation in a Vaishnava Sampradaya (a sect worshipping Vishnu, Krishna, or Rama as the supreme God).[45][46] Giridhar took vairagi (renouncer) initiation or Virakta Diksha in the Ramananda Sampradaya on the Kartika full-moon day of 19 November 1983 from Shri Ramcharandas Maharaj Phalahari. He now came to be known as Rambhadradas.[46]

 
Rambhadracharya meditating on the banks of Mandakini river during a Payovrata. He is seated in the Sukhasana pose with fingers folded in the Chin Mudra.
Six-month fasts

Following the fifth verse of the Dohavali composed by Tulsidas, Rambhadradas observed a six-month Payovrata, a diet of only milk and fruits, at Chitrakoot in 1979.[46][47][48]

Devanagari
पय अहार फल खाइ जपु राम नाम षट मास ।
सकल सुमंगल सिद्धि सब करतल तुलसीदास ॥

IAST
paya ahāra phala khāi japu rāma nāma ṣaṭa māsa ।
sakala sumaṃgala siddhi saba karatala tulasīdāsa ॥

Chant the name of Rama subsisting on a diet of milk and fruits for six months. Says Tulsidas, on doing so, all auspiciousness and accomplishments will be in one's hand.

In 1983 he observed his second Payovrata beside the Sphatik Shila in Chitrakoot.[46] The Payovrata has become a regular part of Rambhadradas' life. In 2002, in his sixth Payovrata, he composed the Sanskrit epic Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam.[49] He continues to observe Payovratas, the latest (2010–2011) being his ninth.[50][51]

Tulsi Peeth
Main article: Tulsi Peeth

In 1987 Rambhadradas established a religious and social service institution called Tulsi Peeth (The seat of Tulsi) in Chitrakoot, where, according to the Ramayana, Rama had spent twelve out of his fourteen years of exile.[10] As the founder of the seat, the title of Śrīcitrakūṭatulasīpīṭhādhīśvara (literally, the Lord of the Tulsi Peeth at Chitrakoot) was bestowed upon him by Sadhus and intellectuals. In the Tulsi Peeth, he arranged for a temple devoted to Rama and his "Patni"Sita to be constructed, which is known as Kanch Mandir ("glass temple").[10]

Post of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya

Rambhadradas was chosen as the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya seated at the Tulsi Peeth by the Kashi Vidwat Parishad in Varanasi on 24 June 1988.[8] On 3 February 1989, at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the appointment was unanimously supported by the Mahants of the three Akharas, the four sub-Sampradayas, the Khalsas and saints of the Ramananda Sampradaya.[52] On 1 August 1995 he was ritually anointed as the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya in Ayodhya by the Digambar Akhara.[6] Thereafter he was known as Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya.[53]

Deposition in the Ayodhya case

In July 2003 Rambhadracharya deposed as an expert witness for religious matters (OPW 16) in Other Original Suit Number 5 of the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute case in the Allahabad High Court.[54][55][56] Some portions of his affidavit and cross examination are quoted in the final judgement by the High Court.[57][58][59] In his affidavit, he cited the ancient Hindu scriptures including the Ramayana, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad, Skanda Purana, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda, and others describing Ayodhya as a city holy to Hindus and the birthplace of Rama. He cited verses from two works composed by Tulsidas which, in his opinion, are relevant to the dispute. The first citation consisted of eight verses from a work called Dohā Śataka, which describe the destruction of a temple and construction of a mosque at the disputed site in 1528 CE by Mughal ruler Babur, who had ordered General Mir Baqui to destroy the Rama temple, considered a symbol of worship by sanatana dharmi.[55] The second citation was a verse from a work called Kavitāvalī, which mentions a mosque.[57] In his cross examination, he described in some detail the history of the Ramananda sect, its Mathas, rules regarding Mahants, formation and working of Akharas, and Tulsidas' works.[57] Refuting the possibility of the original temple being to the north of the disputed area, as pleaded by the pro-mosque parties, he described the boundaries of the Janmabhoomi as mentioned in the Ayodhya Mahatmya section of Skanda Purana, which tallied with the present location of the disputed area, as noted by Justice Sudhir Agarwal.[57] However, he stated that he had no knowledge of whether there was a Ram Chabootra ("Platform of Rama") outside the area that was locked from 1950 to 1985 and where the Chati Poojan Sthal was, nor whether the idols of Rama, his brother Lakshmana, and Sita were installed at Ram Chabootra outside the Janmabhoomi temple.[55]

Multilingualism

Rambhadracharya is a scholar of 14 languages and can speak 22 languages in total,[16][17][22] including Sanskrit, Hindi, English, French, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Oriya, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Magadhi, Awadhi, and Braj.[14] He has composed poems and literary works in many Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Awadhi.[5][14] He has translated many of his works of poetry and prose into other languages. He delivers Katha programmes in various languages, including Hindi, Bhojpuri, and Gujarati.[60]

Institutes for the disabled

See also: Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University
 
Rambhadracharya with mobility-impaired students in front of the main building of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University on 2 January 2005

On 23 August 1996 Rambhadracharya established the Tulsi School for the Blind in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh.[10][13] He founded the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, an institution of higher learning solely for disabled students, on 27 September 2001 in Chitrakoot.[13][14] This is the first university in the world exclusively for those with disabilities.[61][62] The university was created by an ordinance of the Uttar Pradesh Government, which was later passed as Uttar Pradesh State Act 32 (2001) by the Uttar Pradesh legislature.[63][64] The act appointed Swami Rambhadracharya as the lifelong chancellor of the university. The university offers graduate, post-graduate, and doctorate degrees in various subjects, including Sanskrit, Hindi, English, Sociology, Psychology, Music, Drawing and Painting, Fine Arts, Special Education, Education, History, Culture and Archeology, Computer and Information Sciences, Vocational Education, Law, Economics, and Prosthetics and Orthotics.[64] The university plans to start offering courses in Ayurveda and Medical Sciences from 2013.[65] Admissions are restricted to the four types of disabled students—visually impaired, hearing impaired, mobility impaired, and mentally impaired—as defined by the Disability Act (1995) of the Government of India. According to the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the university is among the chief educational institutes for Information Technology and Electronics in the state.[66]

Rambhadracharya also founded an organisation called Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Viklang Seva Sangh, headquartered in Satna, Madhya Pradesh. Its goal is to create community awareness and initiate child development programmes in rural India. Its primary objective is to supplement the education programmes of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University by helping disabled children get a good education. Aid is generally given in the form of facilities which enable easier access to education.[67] Rambhadracharya also runs a hundred-bed hospital in Gujarat.[13]

Critical edition of Ramcharitmanas

Main article: Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas

The Ramcharitmanas was composed by Tulsidas in the late sixteenth century. It has been extremely popular in northern India over the last four hundred years, and is often referred to as the "Bible of northern India" by Western Indologists.[68] Rambhadracharya produced a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas,[69] which was published as the Tulsi Peeth edition. Apart from the original text, for which Rambhadracharya has relied extensively on older manuscripts,[69] there were differences in spelling, grammar, and prosodic conventions between the Tulsi Peeth edition and contemporary editions of the Ramcharitmanas.[70][71]

In November 2009, Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic,[69][72] but the dispute died down after Rambhadracharya expressed his regret for any annoyance or pain caused by the publication.[73] A writ petition was also filed against him but it was dismissed.[18] This edition was published in 2005 by Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas.[21][74]

Assassination threats

In November 2007 someone claiming to be an al-Qaeda member sent Rambhadracharya a letter telling him and his disciples either to accept Islam or to be prepared to die.[75] Police superintendent Kamal Singh Rathore said that this letter had been sent from Haridwar, that Rambhadracharya's security arrangements had been increased and that an intensive investigation of the letter had been carried out.[75] Gita Devi, secretary of JRHU, said that Rambhadracharya had been threatened by al-Qaeda, as Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas president Nrityagopal had been in the past.[75]

In November 2014, Rambhadracharya received another assassination threat with a demand of "terror tax" over JRHU operations.[76]

Participation in 84-kosi yatra

On 25 August 2013, Rambhadracharya arrived at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport in Lucknow along with VHP leader Ashok Singhal.[27][77] He was going to Ayodhya to take part in the 84-kosi yatra, a 12-day religious yatra which was banned by the state government citing law and order reasons. It is alleged that the ban was due to opposition from Muslim organisations or vote-bank politics.[27][78][79] Rambhadracharya's participation in the yatra was kept secret.[80] Rambhadracharya was put under house arrest at the home of R C Mishra, his disciple and friend.[81][82]

On 26 August 2013, a local lawyer Ranjana Agnihotri filed a habeas corpus petition in the Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench, on which judges Imtiyaz Murtaza and D K Upadhayaya passed the release order for Rambhadracharya, along with Singhal and Praveen Togadia.[27] The petitioner's advocate H S Jain said that even though Rambhadracharya and other leaders were arrested under the section 151 of the 1973 Criminal Procedure Code, which permits an arrest to prevent commission of cognisable offences, the custody period cannot exceed 24 hours unless any other section of the code or any other law is applicable.[27] After his release, Rambhadracharya said that the government had creating misconceptions about the yatra.[83]

Two days after the incident, Rambhadracharya was given Y-category security cover by the Uttar Pradesh government since he had reported security threats.[77] Hindustan Times reported that this grant could be a possible attempt to "build bridges with the sadhus after the Sunday showdown."[77] Government officials said that a high-powered committee will decide on the continuation of the security cover.[77] JRHU vice-chancellor B Pandey said that Rambhadracharya met Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow and invited him to be the chief guest in a University function, and Yadav accepted the invitation.[77] However, Yadav did not attend the function due to difficult circumstances, but sent the Energy Minister of State Vijay Mishra and Secondary Education Minister of State Vijay Bahadur Pal.[84] Rambhadracharya was disappointed that Yadav could not "come for even 15 minutes for disabled children," and said that he will have atone for this.[84]

Works

 
Śrībhārgavarāghaviyam being released by Atal Bihari Vajpayee (centre) in 2002. Rambhadracharya is to the left.
Main article: Works of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya

Rambhadracharya has authored more than 100 books and 50 papers, including published books and unpublished manuscripts.[11][18][19] Various audio and video recordings have also been released. His major literary and musical compositions are listed below.[21][74]

Poetry and plays

  • (1980) Kākā Vidura (काका विदुर) – Hindi minor poem.
  • (1982) Mā̐ Śabarī (मा̐ शबरी) – Hindi minor poem.
  • (1991) Rāghavagītaguñjana (राघवगीतगुञ्जन) – Hindi lyrical poem.
  • (1993) Bhaktigītasudhā (भक्तिगीतसुधा) – Hindi lyrical poem.
  • (1994) Arundhatī (अरुन्धती) – Hindi epic poem.
  • (1996) Ājādacandraśekharacaritam (आजादचन्द्रशेखरचरितम्) – Sanskrit minor poem.[85]: 14 
  • (1996) Āryāśatakam (आर्याशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 18 
  • (1996) Gaṇapatiśatakam (गणपतिशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 46 
  • (1996) Caṇḍīśatakam (चण्डीशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 54 
  • (1996) Jānakīkṛpākaṭākṣam (जानकीकृपाकटाक्षम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 65 
  • (1996) Mukundasmaraṇam (मुकुन्दस्मरणम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 129 
  • (1996) Śrīrāghavābhyudayam (श्रीराघवाभ्युदयम्) – Single-act Sanskrit play-poem.[85]: 136, 180 
  • (1996) Śrīrāghavendraśatakam (श्रीराघवेन्द्रशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 137 
  • (1997) Aṣṭādhyāyyāḥ Pratisūtraṃ Śābdabodhasamīkṣaṇam (अष्टाध्याय्याः प्रतिसूत्रं शाब्दबोधसमीक्षणम्) – Sanskrit commentary in verse on the Sutras of the Ashtadhyayi.
  • (1997) Śrīrāmabhaktisarvasvam (श्रीरामभक्तिसर्वस्वम्) – Sanskrit poem of one hundred verses.
  • (1998) Śrīgaṅgāmahimnastotram (श्रीगङ्गामहिम्नस्तोत्रम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 172 
  • (2001) Sarayūlaharī (सरयूलहरी) – Sanskrit minor poem.[85]: 185 
  • (2001) Laghuraghuvaram (लघुरघुवरम्) – Sanskrit minor poem.[85]: 144 
  • (2001) Namo Rāghavāya (नमो राघवाय) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 78 
  • (2001) Śrīnarmadāṣṭakam (श्रीनर्मदाष्टकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise on the river Narmada.[85]: 78 
  • (2001) Bhaktisārasarvasvam (भक्तिसारसर्वस्वम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 109 
  • (2001) Ślokamauktikam (श्लोकमौक्तिकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 170 
  • (2001) Śrīrāghavacaraṇacihnaśatakam (श्रीराघवचरणचिह्नशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 139 
  • (2001) Śrījānakīcaraṇacihnaśatakam (श्रीजानकीचरणचिह्नशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 174 
  • (2001) Śrīrāmavallabhāstotram (श्रीरामवल्लभास्तोत्रम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 181 
  • (2010) Sarvarogaharāṣṭakam (सर्वरोगहराष्टकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 200 
  • (2001) Śrīcitrakūṭavihāryaṣṭakam (श्रीचित्रकूटविहार्यष्टकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 173 
  • (2001) Śrījānakīkṛpākaṭākṣastotram (श्रीजानकीकृपाकटाक्षस्तोत्रम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 174 
  • (2002) Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam (श्रीभार्गवराघवीयम्)  – Sanskrit epic poem. The poet was awarded the 2004 Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for the epic.[85]: 177 [86][87]
  • (2002) Śrīrāghavabhāvadarśanam (श्रीराघवभावदर्शनम्) – Sanskrit minor poem.[85]: 180 
  • (2003) Kubjāpatram (कुब्जापत्रम्) – Sanskrit letter poem.
  • (2004) Bhṛṅgadūtam (भृङ्गदूतम्) – Sanskrit minor poem of the Dūtakāvya (messenger-poem) category.[85]: 118 
  • (2007) Manmathāriśatakam (मन्मथारिशतकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 123 
  • (2008) Caraṇapīḍāharāṣṭakam (चरणपीडाहराष्टकम्) – Sanskrit hymn of praise.[85]: 62 
  • (2008) Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī (श्रीसीतारामकेलिकौमुदी) – Hindi Rītikāvya (procedural-era Hindi poem).[88]
  • (2009) Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam (श्रीसीतारामसुप्रभातम्) – A Sanskrit suprabhatam.[89]
  • (2010) Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) – Hindi epic poem.[90][91]
  • (2011) Gītarāmāyaṇam (गीतरामायणम्) – Sanskrit lyrical epic poem.[85]: 49 [92]
  • (2011) Avadha Kai Ajoriyā (अवध कै अजोरिया) – Awadhi lyrical poem.[93]
  • (2011) Śrīsītāsudhānidhiḥ (श्रीसीतासुधानिधिः) – Sanskrit minor poem of the Stotraprabandhakāvya category.[94]

Prose

 
Covers of some books edited or authored by Rambhadracharya.

Sanskrit commentaries on Prasthanatrayi

Main article: Shriraghavkripabhashyam

Rambhadracharya composed Sanskrit commentaries titled Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures – the Brahma Sutra,[85]: 107  the Bhagavad Gita,[85]: 178  and eleven Upanishads.[85]: 21, 27, 43, 59, 67, 100, 128, 129, 140, 158, 170  These commentaries were released on 10 April 1998 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then Prime Minister of India.[21][95] Rambhadracharya composed Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on Narada Bhakti Sutra in 1991.[85]: 82  He thus revived the tradition of writing Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi. He also gave the Ramananda Sampradaya its second commentary on Prasthanatrayi in Sanskrit, the first being the Ānandabhāṣyam, composed by Ramananda himself.[96][97] Rambhadracharya's commentary in Sanskrit on the Prasthanatrayi was the first written in almost 500 years.[96]

Other prose works

 
Rambhadracharya delivering a discourse. He has delivered many discourses, some of which have been published as books.
  • (1980) Bharata Mahimā (भरत महिमा) – Hindi discourse.
  • (1981) Adhyātmarāmāyaṇe Apāṇinīyaprayogānāṃ Vimarśaḥ (अध्यात्मरामायणे अपाणिनीयप्रयोगानां विमर्शः) – Sanskrit dissertation (PhD thesis).
  • (1982) Mānasa Me̐ Tāpasa Prasaṅga (मानस में तापस प्रसंग) – Hindi deliberation.
  • (1983) Mahavīrī (महावीरी) – Hindi commentary on Hanuman Chalisa.
  • (1985) Sugrīva Kā Agha Aura Vibhīṣaṇa Kī Karatūti (सुग्रीव का अघ और विभीषण की करतूति) – Hindi discourse.
  • (1985) Śrīgītātātparya (श्रीगीतातात्पर्य) – Hindi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
  • (1988) Sanātanadharma Kī Vigrahasvarūpa Gomātā (सनातनधर्म की विग्रहस्वरूप गोमाता) – Hindi deliberation.
  • (1988) Śrītulasīsāhitya me̐ Kṛṣṇa Kathā (श्रीतुलसीसाहित्य में कृष्णकथा) – Hindi investigative research.
  • (1989) Mānasa me̐ Sumitrā (मानस में सुमित्रा) – Hindi discourse.
  • (1990) Sīta Nirvāsana Nahī̐ (सीता निर्वासन नहीं) – Hindi critique.
  • (1991) Śrīnāradabhaktisūtreṣu Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam (श्रीनारदभक्तिसूत्रेषु श्रीराघवकृपाभाष्यम्) – Sanskrit commentary on the Narada Bhakti Sutra.
  • (1992) Prabhu Kari Kṛpā Pā̐varī Dīnhī (प्रभु करि कृपा पाँवरी दीन्ही) – Hindi discourse.
  • (1993) Parama Baḍabhāgī Jaṭāyu (परम बड़भागी जटायु) – Hindi discourse.
  • (2001) Śrīrāmastavarājastotre Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam (श्रीरामस्तवराजस्तोत्रे श्रीराघवकृपाभाष्यम्) – Sanskrit commentary on the Rāmastavarājastotra.
  • (2001) Śrī Sītārāma Vivāha Darśana (श्री सीताराम विवाह दर्शन) – Hindi discourse.
  • (2004) Tuma Pāvaka Ma̐ha Karahu Nivāsā (तुम पावक मँह करहु निवासा) – Hindi discourse.
  • (2005) Bhāvārthabodhinī (भावार्थबोधिनी) – Hindi commentary on the Ramcharitmanas.
  • (2007) Śrīrāsapañcādhyāyīvimarśaḥ (श्रीरासपञ्चाध्यायीविमर्शः) – Hindi deliberation on Rāsapañcādhyāyī.
  • (2006) Ahalyoddhāra (अहल्योद्धार) – Hindi discourse.
  • (2008) Hara Te Bhe Hanumāna (हर ते भे हनुमान) – Hindi discourse.
  • (2009) Satya Rāmapremī Śrīdaśaratha (सत्य रामप्रेमी श्रीदशरथ) – Hindi discourse on the character of Dasharatha.
  • (2011) Veṇugīta (वेणुगीत) – Hindi discourse on chapter 21 from Book 10 of Śrīmadbhāgavatam.

Audio and video

  • (2001) Bhajana Sarayū (भजन सरयू) – Audio CD with eight bhajans (devotional hymns) in Hindi devoted to Rama. Composed, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. Released by Yuki Cassettes, Delhi.[98]
  • (2001) Bhajana Yamunā (भजन यमुना) – Audio CD with seven bhajans in Hindi devoted to Krishna. Composed, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. Released by Yuki Cassettes, Delhi.[99]
  • (2009) Śrī Hanumat Bhakti (श्री हनुमत् भक्ति) – Audio CD with six bhajans in Hindi devoted to Hanuman, and composed by Tulsidas. Set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya. Released by Kuber Music, New Delhi.[100]
  • (2009) Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam (श्रीसीतारामसुप्रभातम्) – Audio CD of Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam, a Sanskrit Suprabhata poem. Composed, set to music, and sung in the Vairagi Raga by Rambhadracharya. Released by Yuki Cassettes, Delhi.[101]
  • (2009) Sundara Kāṇḍa (सुन्दर काण्ड) – DVD with a musical rendition of and commentary on the Sundar Kand of Ramcharitmanas. Spoken, set to music, and sung by Rambhadracharya. Released by Yuki Cassettes, Delhi.[102]

Literary style

Main article: Rambhadracharya's literary style

Rewa Prasad Dwivedi writes in his Sanskrit poem dedicated to Rambhadracharya that he is an encyclopaedia of learning whose literature is like numerous Narmadā rivers flowing out simultaneously, and in whose literary works Shiva and Parvati delight while performing Tandava and Lasya.[103]

Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry writes in his review of Rambhadracharya's works that Rambhadracharya is an accomplished and eloquent poet who is the foremost among scholars and is also well-versed in all scriptures, and who even talks in extemporaneously composed poetry with Sanskrit scholars, usually in Upajāti metre. Rambhadracharya uses with great effect the Daṇḍaka style with Sanskrit adjectives in his speeches. Shastry recounts a use of a long sentence in the Daṇḍaka style at a speech in Jaipur in July 2003 by Rambhadracharya, in which one sentence with multiple adjectives lasted around seven minutes and was "replete with poetic beauty". Shastry writes that among Sanskrit poets, only Śrīharṣa (poet of Naiṣadhīyacaritam) has been described as having such wonderful command over Sanskrit as Rambhadracharya has.[104]

Shastry critiqued the work Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam in the January 2003 issue of the Sanskrit monthly Bhāratī. Shastry writes that the work has poetic excellence, variety of meters and dexterity of language which has not been seen hitherto in Sanskrit epics. Shastry finds the twentieth canto of the epic to be an excellent illustration of Sanskrit poetry in Prakrit verses, a style which was pioneered by Shastry's father.[104]

Dr. Brajesh Dikshit, Sanskrit scholar from Jabalpur, says that Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam combines the styles of three previous Sanskrit epics – it has two leading characters like in Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīyam, the poetic excellence and variety of prosodic metres is like in Śrīharṣa's Naiṣadhīyacaritam, while the length and extent of the work is like the Śiśupālavadham of Māgha.[105]

Shastry also critiqued the work Bhṛṅgadūtam, about which he says that it has many new usages (Prayogas) not seen earlier in Sanskrit poetry. As per Shastry, new dimensions in Sanskrit literature are seen in the play Śrīrāghavābhyudayam where there are songs in the Gīti style, and Gītarāmāyaṇam which is an epic poem in the Gīti style of Gītagovindam by Jayadeva.[104] Dikshit writes that Kubjāpatram is a revival of the letter-poem (Patrakāvya) genre in Sanskrit after 2000 years, and is the first work in Sanskrit literature whose lead character is disabled.[105]

Shastry says that rhyme (Antyānuprāsa) is a distinguishing feature of Rambhadracharya's Sanskrit poetry. Shastry notes that another feature of Rambhadracharya's works is the devotion to motherland and patriotism, which is most evident in the poetic work Ājādacandraśekharacaritam on the life of Chandrashekhar Azad. Shastry says that this strong feeling of love towards motherland is reminiscent of old Sanskrit literature including Prithvi Sukta of Atharva Veda, various Puranas including Bhagavata Purana, and also in the Sanskrit works of Swami Bhagavadacharya, a former Jagadguru Ramanandacharya.[104] Dikshit says that the nationalistic play Śrīrāghavābhyudayam establishes Rambhadracharya as a successful playwright at a young age. Dikshit praises the aesthetics of the work Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī saying that it represents all the six Sampradāyas of Indian literature (Rīti, Rasa, Alaṅkāra, Dhvani, Vakrokti and Aucitya), and that it is a unique work of Rambhadracharya when it comes to figures of speech. Dikshit says that this work places Rambhadracharya in the league of Ritikavya poets like Raskhan, Keshavdas, Ghananand and Padmakar; but observes the distinction that while the works of all these poets are primarily in the Śṛngāra Rasa, Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī is a work which has Vātsalya Rasa as the primary emotion, which is augmented by Śṛngāra Rasa.[105]

Dinkar notes that in the poems of Rambhadracharya, the three poetical styles of Pāñcālī (secondary figurative sense with short and sweet-sounding compounds), Vaidarbhī (with compounds and soft contexts and without many figures of speech) and Lāṭī (with precise contexts and without many figures of speech) are dominant.[106]

Recognition, awards and honours

Recognition

Recognition in India
 
Rambhadracharya (left) being presented the Vani Alankarana Puraskara by Somnath Chatterjee (right) in 2006
 
Rambhadracharya's katha on Ramcharitmanas in June 2011 at Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Singapore.

Rambhadracharya is widely popular in Chitrakoot.[69] Atal Bihari Vajpayee considered Rambhadracharya to be an "immensely learned person well versed in Vedic and Puranic literature besides the grammar", and commended his intelligence and memory.[107] Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi said of Rambhadracharya that the "intense knowledge of the most revered is indeed adorable".[108] Nanaji Deshmukh called Rambhadracharya "an astonishing gem of the country".[109] Swami Kalyandev considered Rambhadracharya to be "an unprecedented intellectual and speaker, and an Acharya with great devotion".[110] Somnath Chatterjee called him a "celebrated Sanskrit scholar and educationist of great merit and achievement".[5] He is considered one of the greatest scholars on Tulsidas and Ramcharitmanas in India, and is cited as such.[23][111][112] Ram Prakash Gupta and Keshari Nath Tripathi have stated that Rambhadracharya has enriched society with his contributions and will continue to do so.[113] Swami Ramdev considers Rambhadracharya to be the most learned person in the world at present.[114] Rambhadracharya was a member of a delegation of saints and Dharmacharyas which met the then president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the then union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in July 2005 to hand over a memorandum urging to strengthen the security arrangements for important religious places in the country.[115] Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra said that Rambhadracharya is of a high-mind, has a stupendous grip on the Indian literature, and "his soul feels the true pleasure in serving oppressed disabled people".[116] Mata Prasad Pandey, the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, said that Rambhadracharya has opened a door of development for those with disabilities in India, and that he has achieved what eminent industrialists and the government cannot do.[117][118] Energy Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Uttar Pradesh Vijay Mishra termed Rambhadracharya as "most revered", whereas Uttar Pradesh's Secondary Education Minister of State Vijay Bahadur Pal called him the "chancellor of the utterly unique handicapped university."[119] Rambhadracharya is also a member of the 51-members Akhil Bharatiya Sant Ucchadhikar Samiti (Empowered Committee of the All India Saints).[120] In November 2014, Rambhadracharya was one of the nine people nominated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Clean India Campaign.[121] In September 2014, Rambhadracharya adopted five villages of Chitrakoot, with an aim to construct toilets in all the households.[122] Rambhadracharya was one of the guests in the inaugural International Yoga Day event in New Delhi.[123]

International recognition

In 1992 Rambhadracharya led the Indian delegation at the Ninth World Conference on Ramayana, held in Indonesia.[13][124] He has travelled to several countries, including England, Mauritius, Singapore, and the United States to deliver discourses on Hindu religion and peace.[13][125] He has been profiled in the International Who's Who of Intellectuals.[126] He was also one of the key figures of the Dharma Prachar Yatra at Detroit.[127]

Address at Millennium World Peace Summit

Rambhadracharya was one of the spiritual and religious Gurus from India at the Millennium World Peace Summit, organised by the United Nations in New York City from 28 to 31 August 2000. While addressing the gathering, he gave Sanskrit definitions for the words Bharata (the ancient name of India) and Hindu, and touched upon the Nirguna and Saguna aspects of God. In his speech on Peace, he called for developed and developing nations to come together to strive for the eradication of poverty, the fight against terrorism, and nuclear disarmament. At the end of his speech, he recited the Shanti Mantra.[125][128]

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and honours received by Rambhadracharya

In 2015, Rambhadracharya was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour.[129] Rambhadracharya has been honoured by several leaders and politicians, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Somnath Chatterjee, Shilendra Kumar Singh, and Indira Gandhi.[5][11][130] Several state governments, including that of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh have conferred honours on him.[16][131][132] In 2021, he was also awarded with Kendra Sahitya Academy Fellowship.[133]

See also

Notes

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  1. ^ Sanskrit: जगद्गुरुरामानन्दाचार्यस्वामिरामभद्राचार्यः, Sanskrit pronunciation: [dʑɐɡɐdɡʊɽʊ ɽaːmaːnɐndaːtɕaːɽjɐ sʋaːmɪ ɽaːmɐbʱɐdɽaːtɕaːɽjɐh] ( listen); Hindi: जगद्गुरु रामानन्दाचार्य स्वामी रामभद्राचार्य, Hindi pronunciation: [dʒəɡədɡuru raːmaːnəndaːtʃaːrjə sʋaːmiː raːmbʱədraːtʃaːrjə] ( listen); IAST: Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya Svāmī Rāmabhadrācārya.
  2. ^ Sanskrit: गिरिधरमिश्रः, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɡɪɽɪdʱɐɽɐ mɪɕɽɐh] ( listen); Hindi: गिरिधर मिश्र, Hindi pronunciation: [ɡiridʱər miʃrə] ( listen); IAST: Giridhara Miśra.
  3. ^ Leaders of the Ramananda monastic order.
  4. ^ Ashukavi.
  5. ^ Two each in Sanskrit and Hindi.

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rambhadracharya, jagadguru, ramanandacharya, swami, born, pandit, giridhar, january, 1950, indian, hindu, spiritual, leader, educator, sanskrit, scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual, commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright, katha, artist, ba. Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya a 4 born Pandit Giridhar on 14 January 1950 b is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader educator Sanskrit scholar polyglot poet author textual commentator philosopher composer singer playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot India 5 He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharya g and has held this title since 1988 6 7 8 Jagadguru RambhadracharyaJagadguru Rambhadracharya delivering a sermon on 25 October 2009 in Moradabad Uttar Pradesh IndiaPersonalBornGiridhar Mishra 1950 01 14 14 January 1950 age 72 Shandikhurd Jaunpur district Uttar Pradesh IndiaReligionHinduismSectRamanandi sectSignatureFounder ofJagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped UniversityTulsi PeethTulasi School for the BlindJagadguru Rambhadracharya Viklang Seva SanghKanch MandirJagadguru Rambhadracharya Viklang Shikshan SansthanPhilosophyVishishtadvaita VedantaReligious careerGuruIshvardas Mantra Ramprasad Tripathi Sanskrit Ramcharandas Sampradaya Disciples Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra Prem Bhushan 1 Nityanand Misra 2 Literary worksSriraghavakṛpabhaṣyam on Prasthanatrayi Sribhargavaraghaviyam Bhṛṅgadutam Gitaramayaṇam Srisitaramasuprabhatam Srisitaramakelikaumudi Aṣṭavakra and othersHonoursDharmacakravarti Mahamahopadhyaya Sricitrakuṭatulasipiṭhadhisvara Jagadguru Ramanandacarya Mahakavi Prasthanatrayibhaṣyakara and othersThis article contains Indic text Without proper rendering support you may see question marks or boxes misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text Quotation Humanity is my temple and I am its worshiper The disabled are my supreme God and I am their grace seeker 3 Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth a religious and social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Saint Tulsidas 9 10 He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Chitrakoot which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to four types of disabled students 5 11 12 13 14 Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months had no formal education until the age of seventeen years and has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose 15 Rambhadracharya can speak 22 languages and is a spontaneous poet d and writer in Sanskrit Hindi Awadhi Maithili and several other languages 16 17 He has authored more than 100 books and 50 papers 11 18 19 including four epic poems e Hindi commentaries on Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa a Sanskrit commentary in verse on the Ashtadhyayi and Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures 20 21 He is acknowledged for his knowledge in diverse fields including Sanskrit grammar Nyaya and Vedanta 22 He is regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Tulsidas in India 23 and is the editor of a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas 24 He is a Katha artist for the Ramayana and the Bhagavata His Katha programmes are held regularly in different cities in India and other countries and are telecast on television channels like Shubh TV Sanskar TV and Sanatan TV 25 26 He is also a leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad VHP 27 Contents 1 Birth and early life 2 Loss of eyesight 2 1 Childhood accident 2 2 First composition 2 3 Mastering Gita and Ramcharitmanas 2 4 Upanayana and Katha discourses 2 5 Discrimination by family 3 Formal education 3 1 Schooling 3 2 Graduation and masters 3 3 Doctorate and post doctorate 4 Later life 4 1 1979 1988 4 2 Post of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya 4 3 Deposition in the Ayodhya case 4 4 Multilingualism 4 5 Institutes for the disabled 4 6 Critical edition of Ramcharitmanas 4 7 Assassination threats 4 8 Participation in 84 kosi yatra 5 Works 5 1 Poetry and plays 5 2 Prose 5 2 1 Sanskrit commentaries on Prasthanatrayi 5 2 2 Other prose works 5 3 Audio and video 5 4 Literary style 6 Recognition awards and honours 6 1 Recognition 6 2 Awards and honours 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 Works cited 11 External linksBirth and early life Edit An old photograph of Shachidevi Mishra mother of Rambhadracharya Jagadguru Rambhadracharya was born to Pandit shri Rajdev Mishra and shrimati Shachidevi Mishra in a Saryupareen Brahmin family of the Vasishtha Gotra lineage of the sage Vasishtha in Shandikhurd village in the Jaunpur district Uttar Pradesh India 28 He was born on Makara Sankranti day 14 January 1950 11 14 29 30 Born to mother Shachidevi and father Pandit Rajdev Mishra he was named Giridhar by his great aunt a paternal cousin of his paternal grandfather Pandit Suryabali Mishra The great aunt was a devotee of Mirabai a female saint of the Bhakti era in medieval India who used the name Giridhar to address the god Krishna in her compositions 16 31 Loss of eyesight EditGiridhar lost his eyesight at the age of two months On 24 March 1950 his eyes were infected by trachoma There were no advanced facilities for treatment in the village so he was taken to an elderly woman in a nearby village who was known to cure trachoma boils to provide relief The woman applied a paste of myrobalan to Giridhar s eyes to burst the lumps but his eyes started bleeding resulting in the loss of his eyesight 14 29 30 His family took him to the King George Hospital in Lucknow where his eyes were treated for 21 days but his sight could not be restored 29 Various Ayurvedic Homeopathic Allopathic and other practitioners were approached in Sitapur Lucknow and Bombay but to no avail 31 Rambhadracharya has been blind ever since He cannot read or write as he does not use Braille he learns by listening and composes by dictating to scribes 15 Childhood accident Edit In June 1953 at a juggler s monkey dance show in the village the children including Giridhar suddenly ran away when the monkey began to touch them Giridhar fell into a small dry well and was trapped for some time until a teenage girl rescued him 29 His grandfather told him that his life was saved because he had learned the following line of a verse in the Ramcharitmanas 1 192 4 from the episode of the manifestation of the god Rama 29 32 यह चर त ज ग वह हर पद प वह त न परह भवक प yaha carita je gavahi haripada pavahi te na parahi bhavakupa Those who sing this lay attain to the feet of Hari Vishnu and never fall into the well of birth and death Giridhar s grandfather asked him to recite the verse always and from then on Giridhar has followed the practice of reciting it every time he takes water or food 29 First composition Edit Giridhar s initial education came from his paternal grandfather as his father worked in Bombay In the afternoons his grandfather would narrate to him various episodes of the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and devotional works like Vishramsagar Sukhsagar Premsagar and Brajvilas At the age of three Giridhar composed his first piece of poetry in Awadhi a dialect of Hindi and recited it to his grandfather In this verse Krishna s foster mother Yashoda is fighting with a Gopi milkmaid for hurting Krishna 29 31 Devanagari म र ग र ध र ज स क ह लर त म तर ण म र ग र धर ब लक क ह भ ज पकर स स क स स क म र ग र धर र वत त म स क त खर त अह र न अत सय झगर ऊ बरबस आय खर ग र धर कर गह कहत जस द आ चर ओट कर IAST mere giridhari ji se kahe lari tuma taruṇi mero giridhara balaka kahe bhuja pakari susuki susuki mero giridhara rovata tu musukata khari tu ahirina atisaya jhagarau barabasa aya khari giridhara kara gahi kahata jasoda a cara oṭa kari Why did you fight with my Giridhara Krishna You are a young maiden and my Giridhara Krishna is but a child why did you hold his arm My Giridhara Krishna is crying sobbing repeatedly and you stand there smirking O Ahir lady cowherd girl you are excessively inclined to quarrel and come and stand here uninvited so says Yashoda holding on to the hand of Giridhara Krishna and covering her face with the end of her Sari sings Giridhara the poet Mastering Gita and Ramcharitmanas Edit At the age of five Giridhar memorised the entire Bhagavad Gita consisting of around 700 verses with chapter and verse numbers in 15 days with the help of his neighbour Pandit Murlidhar Mishra On Janmashtami day in 1955 he recited the entire Bhagavad Gita 14 29 31 33 34 He released the first Braille version of the scripture with the original Sanskrit text and a Hindi commentary at New Delhi on 30 November 2007 52 years after memorising the Gita 35 36 When Giridhar was seven he memorised the entire Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas consisting of around 10 900 verses with chapter and verse numbers in 60 days assisted by his grandfather On Rama Navami day in 1957 he recited the entire epic while fasting 14 29 31 34 Later Giridhar went on to memorise the Vedas the Upanishads works of Sanskrit grammar the Bhagavata Purana all the works of Tulsidas and many other works in Sanskrit and Indian literature 31 33 Upanayana and Katha discourses Edit Giridhar s Upanayana sacred thread ceremony was performed on Nirjala Ekadashi the Ekadashi falling in the bright half of the lunar month of Jyeshtha of 24 June 1961 On this day besides being given the Gayatri Mantra he was initiated given Diksha into the mantra of Rama by Pandit Ishvardas Maharaj of Ayodhya Having mastered the Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas at a very young age Giridhar started visiting the Katha programmes held near his village once every three years in the intercalary month of Purushottama The third time he attended he presented a Katha on Ramcharitmanas which was acclaimed by several famous exponents of the Katha art 31 Discrimination by family Edit When Giridhar was eleven he was stopped from joining his family in a wedding procession His family thought that his presence would be a bad omen for the marriage 29 30 This incident left a strong impression on Giridhar he says at the beginning of his autobiography 37 I am the same person who was considered to be inauspicious for accompanying a marriage party I am the same person who currently inaugurates the biggest of marriage parties or welfare ceremonies What is all this It is all due to the grace of God which turns a straw into a vajra and a vajra into a straw Formal education EditSchooling Edit A young Giridhar Mishra in an undated photo Although Giridhar did not have any formal schooling until the age of seventeen years he had learned many literary works as a child by listening to them His family wished him to become a Kathavachak a Katha artist but Giridhar wanted to pursue his studies His father explored possibilities for his education in Varanasi and thought of sending him to a special school for blind students Giridhar s mother refused to send him there saying that blind children were not treated well at the school 30 On 7 July 1967 Giridhar joined the Adarsh Gaurishankar Sanskrit College in the nearby Sujanganj village of Jaunpur to study Sanskrit Vyakarana grammar Hindi English Maths History and Geography 38 In his autobiography he recalls this day as the day when the Golden Journey of his life began 39 With an ability to memorise material by listening to it just once Giridhar has not used Braille or other aids to study 15 In three months he had memorised and mastered the entire Laghusiddhantakaumudi of Varadaraja 38 He was top of his class for four years and passed the Uttara Madhyama higher secondary examination in Sanskrit with first class and distinction 34 First Sanskrit compositionAt the Adarsh Gaurishankar Sanskrit College Giridhar learnt the eight Ganas of Sanskrit prosody while studying Chandaprabha a work on Sanskrit prosody The next day he composed his first Sanskrit verse in the Bhujaṅgaprayata metre 38 Devanagari मह घ रश क ग न न ऽऽतप यम न पतन त न र स रस स रस न ध अन थ जड म हप श न बद ध प रभ प ह म स वकक ल शहर त त IAST mahaghorasokagnina tapyamanaṃ patantaṃ nirasarasaṃsarasindhau nathaṃ jaḍaṃ mohapasena baddhaṃ prabho pahi maṃ sevakaklesaharttaḥ O omnipotent Lord remover of the distress of your worshippers Protect me who is being consumed by the extremely dreadful fire of sorrows who is helplessly falling in the ocean of the mundane world who is without any protector who is ignorant and who is bonded by the shackles of delusion Graduation and masters Edit In 1971 Giridhar enrolled at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi for higher studies in Vyakarana 38 He topped the final examination for the Shastri Bachelor of Arts 40 degree in 1974 and then enrolled for the Acharya Master of Arts 40 degree at the same institute 15 While pursuing his master s degree he visited New Delhi to participate in various national competitions at the All India Sanskrit Conference where he won five out of the eight gold medals in Vyakarana Samkhya Nyaya Vedanta and Sanskrit Antakshari 6 15 Indira Gandhi then Prime Minister of India presented the five gold medals along with the Chalvaijayanti trophy for Uttar Pradesh to Giridhar 34 Impressed by his abilities Gandhi offered to send him at her own expense to the United States for treatment for his eyes but Giridhar turned down this offer replying with an extemporaneous Sanskrit verse 15 41 Devanagari क द ष टव य पत तजगत व य प तद ष ऽप यसत य म य च र व रततन भ त प पर जद व च र द ष टव य ऽस च क रन क र प र णवक त र रव न द प र ण नन द ध तश श तन र मचन द र म क न द IAST kiṃ dṛṣṭavyaṃ patitajagati vyaptadoṣe pyasatye mayacaravratatanubhṛtaṃ paparajadvicare dṛṣṭavyo sau cikuranikuraiḥ purṇavaktraravindaḥ purṇanando dhṛtasisutanuḥ ramacandro mukundaḥ What is to be seen in this fallen world which is false and filled with vices is full of disputes and is governed by the sins of deceitful and wicked humans Only Rama is worth seeing whose flocks of hair cover his lotus like face who is completely blissful who has the form of a child and who is the giver of liberation In 1976 Giridhar topped the final Acharya examinations in Vyakarana winning seven gold medals and the Chancellor s gold medal 34 In a rare achievement although he had only enrolled for a master s degree in Vyakarana he was declared Acharya of all subjects taught at the university on 30 April 1976 15 Doctorate and post doctorate Edit After completing his master s degree Giridhar enrolled for the doctoral Vidyavaridhi PhD 42 degree at the same institute under Pandit Ramprasad Tripathi 15 He received a research fellowship from the University Grants Commission UGC but even so he faced financial hardship during the next five years 15 He completed his Vidyavaridhi degree in Sanskrit grammar on 14 October 1981 15 His dissertation was titled Adhyatmaramayaṇe paṇiniyaprayoganaṃ Vimarsaḥ or Deliberation on the non Paninian usages in the Adhyatma Ramayana 43 The thesis was authored in only thirteen days in 1981 43 On completion of his doctorate the UGC offered him the position of head of the Vyakarana department of the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University However Giridhar did not accept he decided to devote his life to the service of religion society and those with disabilities 15 On 9 May 1997 Giridhar now known as Rambhadracharya was awarded the post doctorate Vachaspati DLitt 40 42 degree by Sampurnanand Sanskrit University for his 2000 page Sanskrit dissertation Paṇiniyaṣṭadhyayyaḥ Pratisutraṃ Sabdabodhasamikṣa or Investigation into verbal knowledge of every Sutra of the Ashtadhyayi of Panini 38 The degree was presented to him by K R Narayanan then President of India 44 In this work Rambhadracharya explained each aphorism of the grammar of Panini in Sanskrit verses 38 Later life Edit1979 1988 Edit Virakta DikshaIn 1976 Giridhar narrated a Katha on Ramcharitmanas to Swami Karpatri who advised him not to marry to stay a lifelong Brahmachari celibate bachelor and to take initiation in a Vaishnava Sampradaya a sect worshipping Vishnu Krishna or Rama as the supreme God 45 46 Giridhar took vairagi renouncer initiation or Virakta Diksha in the Ramananda Sampradaya on the Kartika full moon day of 19 November 1983 from Shri Ramcharandas Maharaj Phalahari He now came to be known as Rambhadradas 46 Rambhadracharya meditating on the banks of Mandakini river during a Payovrata He is seated in the Sukhasana pose with fingers folded in the Chin Mudra Six month fastsFollowing the fifth verse of the Dohavali composed by Tulsidas Rambhadradas observed a six month Payovrata a diet of only milk and fruits at Chitrakoot in 1979 46 47 48 Devanagari पय अह र फल ख इ जप र म न म षट म स सकल स म गल स द ध सब करतल त लस द स IAST paya ahara phala khai japu rama nama ṣaṭa masa sakala sumaṃgala siddhi saba karatala tulasidasa Chant the name of Rama subsisting on a diet of milk and fruits for six months Says Tulsidas on doing so all auspiciousness and accomplishments will be in one s hand In 1983 he observed his second Payovrata beside the Sphatik Shila in Chitrakoot 46 The Payovrata has become a regular part of Rambhadradas life In 2002 in his sixth Payovrata he composed the Sanskrit epic Sribhargavaraghaviyam 49 He continues to observe Payovratas the latest 2010 2011 being his ninth 50 51 Tulsi PeethMain article Tulsi Peeth In 1987 Rambhadradas established a religious and social service institution called Tulsi Peeth The seat of Tulsi in Chitrakoot where according to the Ramayana Rama had spent twelve out of his fourteen years of exile 10 As the founder of the seat the title of Sricitrakuṭatulasipiṭhadhisvara literally the Lord of the Tulsi Peeth at Chitrakoot was bestowed upon him by Sadhus and intellectuals In the Tulsi Peeth he arranged for a temple devoted to Rama and his Patni Sita to be constructed which is known as Kanch Mandir glass temple 10 Post of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Edit Rambhadradas was chosen as the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya seated at the Tulsi Peeth by the Kashi Vidwat Parishad in Varanasi on 24 June 1988 8 On 3 February 1989 at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad the appointment was unanimously supported by the Mahants of the three Akharas the four sub Sampradayas the Khalsas and saints of the Ramananda Sampradaya 52 On 1 August 1995 he was ritually anointed as the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya in Ayodhya by the Digambar Akhara 6 Thereafter he was known as Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya 53 Deposition in the Ayodhya case Edit In July 2003 Rambhadracharya deposed as an expert witness for religious matters OPW 16 in Other Original Suit Number 5 of the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute case in the Allahabad High Court 54 55 56 Some portions of his affidavit and cross examination are quoted in the final judgement by the High Court 57 58 59 In his affidavit he cited the ancient Hindu scriptures including the Ramayana Ramatapaniya Upaniṣad Skanda Purana Yajurveda Atharvaveda and others describing Ayodhya as a city holy to Hindus and the birthplace of Rama He cited verses from two works composed by Tulsidas which in his opinion are relevant to the dispute The first citation consisted of eight verses from a work called Doha Sataka which describe the destruction of a temple and construction of a mosque at the disputed site in 1528 CE by Mughal ruler Babur who had ordered General Mir Baqui to destroy the Rama temple considered a symbol of worship by sanatana dharmi 55 The second citation was a verse from a work called Kavitavali which mentions a mosque 57 In his cross examination he described in some detail the history of the Ramananda sect its Mathas rules regarding Mahants formation and working of Akharas and Tulsidas works 57 Refuting the possibility of the original temple being to the north of the disputed area as pleaded by the pro mosque parties he described the boundaries of the Janmabhoomi as mentioned in the Ayodhya Mahatmya section of Skanda Purana which tallied with the present location of the disputed area as noted by Justice Sudhir Agarwal 57 However he stated that he had no knowledge of whether there was a Ram Chabootra Platform of Rama outside the area that was locked from 1950 to 1985 and where the Chati Poojan Sthal was nor whether the idols of Rama his brother Lakshmana and Sita were installed at Ram Chabootra outside the Janmabhoomi temple 55 Multilingualism Edit Rambhadracharya is a scholar of 14 languages and can speak 22 languages in total 16 17 22 including Sanskrit Hindi English French Bhojpuri Maithili Oriya Gujarati Punjabi Marathi Magadhi Awadhi and Braj 14 He has composed poems and literary works in many Indian languages including Sanskrit Hindi and Awadhi 5 14 He has translated many of his works of poetry and prose into other languages He delivers Katha programmes in various languages including Hindi Bhojpuri and Gujarati 60 Institutes for the disabled Edit See also Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University Rambhadracharya with mobility impaired students in front of the main building of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University on 2 January 2005 On 23 August 1996 Rambhadracharya established the Tulsi School for the Blind in Chitrakoot Uttar Pradesh 10 13 He founded the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University an institution of higher learning solely for disabled students on 27 September 2001 in Chitrakoot 13 14 This is the first university in the world exclusively for those with disabilities 61 62 The university was created by an ordinance of the Uttar Pradesh Government which was later passed as Uttar Pradesh State Act 32 2001 by the Uttar Pradesh legislature 63 64 The act appointed Swami Rambhadracharya as the lifelong chancellor of the university The university offers graduate post graduate and doctorate degrees in various subjects including Sanskrit Hindi English Sociology Psychology Music Drawing and Painting Fine Arts Special Education Education History Culture and Archeology Computer and Information Sciences Vocational Education Law Economics and Prosthetics and Orthotics 64 The university plans to start offering courses in Ayurveda and Medical Sciences from 2013 65 Admissions are restricted to the four types of disabled students visually impaired hearing impaired mobility impaired and mentally impaired as defined by the Disability Act 1995 of the Government of India According to the Government of Uttar Pradesh the university is among the chief educational institutes for Information Technology and Electronics in the state 66 Rambhadracharya also founded an organisation called Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Viklang Seva Sangh headquartered in Satna Madhya Pradesh Its goal is to create community awareness and initiate child development programmes in rural India Its primary objective is to supplement the education programmes of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University by helping disabled children get a good education Aid is generally given in the form of facilities which enable easier access to education 67 Rambhadracharya also runs a hundred bed hospital in Gujarat 13 Critical edition of Ramcharitmanas Edit Main article Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas The Ramcharitmanas was composed by Tulsidas in the late sixteenth century It has been extremely popular in northern India over the last four hundred years and is often referred to as the Bible of northern India by Western Indologists 68 Rambhadracharya produced a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas 69 which was published as the Tulsi Peeth edition Apart from the original text for which Rambhadracharya has relied extensively on older manuscripts 69 there were differences in spelling grammar and prosodic conventions between the Tulsi Peeth edition and contemporary editions of the Ramcharitmanas 70 71 In November 2009 Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic 69 72 but the dispute died down after Rambhadracharya expressed his regret for any annoyance or pain caused by the publication 73 A writ petition was also filed against him but it was dismissed 18 This edition was published in 2005 by Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas 21 74 Assassination threats Edit In November 2007 someone claiming to be an al Qaeda member sent Rambhadracharya a letter telling him and his disciples either to accept Islam or to be prepared to die 75 Police superintendent Kamal Singh Rathore said that this letter had been sent from Haridwar that Rambhadracharya s security arrangements had been increased and that an intensive investigation of the letter had been carried out 75 Gita Devi secretary of JRHU said that Rambhadracharya had been threatened by al Qaeda as Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas president Nrityagopal had been in the past 75 In November 2014 Rambhadracharya received another assassination threat with a demand of terror tax over JRHU operations 76 Participation in 84 kosi yatra Edit On 25 August 2013 Rambhadracharya arrived at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport in Lucknow along with VHP leader Ashok Singhal 27 77 He was going to Ayodhya to take part in the 84 kosi yatra a 12 day religious yatra which was banned by the state government citing law and order reasons It is alleged that the ban was due to opposition from Muslim organisations or vote bank politics 27 78 79 Rambhadracharya s participation in the yatra was kept secret 80 Rambhadracharya was put under house arrest at the home of R C Mishra his disciple and friend 81 82 On 26 August 2013 a local lawyer Ranjana Agnihotri filed a habeas corpus petition in the Allahabad High Court s Lucknow bench on which judges Imtiyaz Murtaza and D K Upadhayaya passed the release order for Rambhadracharya along with Singhal and Praveen Togadia 27 The petitioner s advocate H S Jain said that even though Rambhadracharya and other leaders were arrested under the section 151 of the 1973 Criminal Procedure Code which permits an arrest to prevent commission of cognisable offences the custody period cannot exceed 24 hours unless any other section of the code or any other law is applicable 27 After his release Rambhadracharya said that the government had creating misconceptions about the yatra 83 Two days after the incident Rambhadracharya was given Y category security cover by the Uttar Pradesh government since he had reported security threats 77 Hindustan Times reported that this grant could be a possible attempt to build bridges with the sadhus after the Sunday showdown 77 Government officials said that a high powered committee will decide on the continuation of the security cover 77 JRHU vice chancellor B Pandey said that Rambhadracharya met Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow and invited him to be the chief guest in a University function and Yadav accepted the invitation 77 However Yadav did not attend the function due to difficult circumstances but sent the Energy Minister of State Vijay Mishra and Secondary Education Minister of State Vijay Bahadur Pal 84 Rambhadracharya was disappointed that Yadav could not come for even 15 minutes for disabled children and said that he will have atone for this 84 Works Edit Sribhargavaraghaviyam being released by Atal Bihari Vajpayee centre in 2002 Rambhadracharya is to the left Main article Works of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Rambhadracharya has authored more than 100 books and 50 papers including published books and unpublished manuscripts 11 18 19 Various audio and video recordings have also been released His major literary and musical compositions are listed below 21 74 Poetry and plays Edit 1980 Kaka Vidura क क व द र Hindi minor poem 1982 Ma Sabari म शबर Hindi minor poem 1991 Raghavagitagunjana र घवग तग ञ जन Hindi lyrical poem 1993 Bhaktigitasudha भक त ग तस ध Hindi lyrical poem 1994 Arundhati अर न धत Hindi epic poem 1996 Ajadacandrasekharacaritam आज दचन द रश खरचर तम Sanskrit minor poem 85 14 1996 Aryasatakam आर य शतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 18 1996 Gaṇapatisatakam गणपत शतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 46 1996 Caṇḍisatakam चण ड शतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 54 1996 Janakikṛpakaṭakṣam ज नक क प कट क षम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 65 1996 Mukundasmaraṇam म क न दस मरणम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 129 1996 Sriraghavabhyudayam श र र घव भ य दयम Single act Sanskrit play poem 85 136 180 1996 Sriraghavendrasatakam श र र घव न द रशतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 137 1997 Aṣṭadhyayyaḥ Pratisutraṃ Sabdabodhasamikṣaṇam अष ट ध य य य प रत स त र श ब दब धसम क षणम Sanskrit commentary in verse on the Sutras of the Ashtadhyayi 1997 Sriramabhaktisarvasvam श र र मभक त सर वस वम Sanskrit poem of one hundred verses 1998 Srigaṅgamahimnastotram श र गङ ग मह म नस त त रम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 172 2001 Sarayulahari सरय लहर Sanskrit minor poem 85 185 2001 Laghuraghuvaram लघ रघ वरम Sanskrit minor poem 85 144 2001 Namo Raghavaya नम र घव य Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 78 2001 Srinarmadaṣṭakam श र नर मद ष टकम Sanskrit hymn of praise on the river Narmada 85 78 2001 Bhaktisarasarvasvam भक त स रसर वस वम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 109 2001 Slokamauktikam श ल कम क त कम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 170 2001 Sriraghavacaraṇacihnasatakam श र र घवचरणच ह नशतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 139 2001 Srijanakicaraṇacihnasatakam श र ज नक चरणच ह नशतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 174 2001 Sriramavallabhastotram श र र मवल लभ स त त रम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 181 2010 Sarvarogaharaṣṭakam सर वर गहर ष टकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 200 2001 Sricitrakuṭaviharyaṣṭakam श र च त रक टव ह र यष टकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 173 2001 Srijanakikṛpakaṭakṣastotram श र ज नक क प कट क षस त त रम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 174 2002 Sribhargavaraghaviyam श र भ र गवर घव यम Sanskrit epic poem The poet was awarded the 2004 Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for the epic 85 177 86 87 2002 Sriraghavabhavadarsanam श र र घवभ वदर शनम Sanskrit minor poem 85 180 2003 Kubjapatram क ब ज पत रम Sanskrit letter poem 2004 Bhṛṅgadutam भ ङ गद तम Sanskrit minor poem of the Dutakavya messenger poem category 85 118 2007 Manmatharisatakam मन मथ र शतकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 123 2008 Caraṇapiḍaharaṣṭakam चरणप ड हर ष टकम Sanskrit hymn of praise 85 62 2008 Srisitaramakelikaumudi श र स त र मक ल क म द Hindi Ritikavya procedural era Hindi poem 88 2009 Srisitaramasuprabhatam श र स त र मस प रभ तम A Sanskrit suprabhatam 89 2010 Aṣṭavakra अष ट वक र Hindi epic poem 90 91 2011 Gitaramayaṇam ग तर म यणम Sanskrit lyrical epic poem 85 49 92 2011 Avadha Kai Ajoriya अवध क अज र य Awadhi lyrical poem 93 2011 Srisitasudhanidhiḥ श र स त स ध न ध Sanskrit minor poem of the Stotraprabandhakavya category 94 Prose Edit Covers of some books edited or authored by Rambhadracharya Sanskrit commentaries on Prasthanatrayi Edit Main article Shriraghavkripabhashyam Rambhadracharya composed Sanskrit commentaries titled Sriraghavakṛpabhaṣyam on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures the Brahma Sutra 85 107 the Bhagavad Gita 85 178 and eleven Upanishads 85 21 27 43 59 67 100 128 129 140 158 170 These commentaries were released on 10 April 1998 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee then Prime Minister of India 21 95 Rambhadracharya composed Sriraghavakṛpabhaṣyam on Narada Bhakti Sutra in 1991 85 82 He thus revived the tradition of writing Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi He also gave the Ramananda Sampradaya its second commentary on Prasthanatrayi in Sanskrit the first being the Anandabhaṣyam composed by Ramananda himself 96 97 Rambhadracharya s commentary in Sanskrit on the Prasthanatrayi was the first written in almost 500 years 96 Other prose works Edit Rambhadracharya delivering a discourse He has delivered many discourses some of which have been published as books 1980 Bharata Mahima भरत मह म Hindi discourse 1981 Adhyatmaramayaṇe Apaṇiniyaprayoganaṃ Vimarsaḥ अध य त मर म यण अप ण न यप रय ग न व मर श Sanskrit dissertation PhD thesis 1982 Manasa Me Tapasa Prasaṅga म नस म त पस प रस ग Hindi deliberation 1983 Mahaviri मह व र Hindi commentary on Hanuman Chalisa 1985 Sugriva Ka Agha Aura Vibhiṣaṇa Ki Karatuti स ग र व क अघ और व भ षण क करत त Hindi discourse 1985 Srigitatatparya श र ग त त त पर य Hindi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita 1988 Sanatanadharma Ki Vigrahasvarupa Gomata सन तनधर म क व ग रहस वर प ग म त Hindi deliberation 1988 Sritulasisahitya me Kṛṣṇa Katha श र त लस स ह त य म क ष णकथ Hindi investigative research 1989 Manasa me Sumitra म नस म स म त र Hindi discourse 1990 Sita Nirvasana Nahi स त न र व सन नह Hindi critique 1991 Srinaradabhaktisutreṣu Sriraghavakṛpabhaṣyam श र न रदभक त स त र ष श र र घवक प भ ष यम Sanskrit commentary on the Narada Bhakti Sutra 1992 Prabhu Kari Kṛpa Pa vari Dinhi प रभ कर क प प वर द न ह Hindi discourse 1993 Parama Baḍabhagi Jaṭayu परम बड भ ग जट य Hindi discourse 2001 Sriramastavarajastotre Sriraghavakṛpabhaṣyam श र र मस तवर जस त त र श र र घवक प भ ष यम Sanskrit commentary on the Ramastavarajastotra 2001 Sri Sitarama Vivaha Darsana श र स त र म व व ह दर शन Hindi discourse 2004 Tuma Pavaka Ma ha Karahu Nivasa त म प वक म ह करह न व स Hindi discourse 2005 Bhavarthabodhini भ व र थब ध न Hindi commentary on the Ramcharitmanas 2007 Srirasapancadhyayivimarsaḥ श र र सपञ च ध य य व मर श Hindi deliberation on Rasapancadhyayi 2006 Ahalyoddhara अहल य द ध र Hindi discourse 2008 Hara Te Bhe Hanumana हर त भ हन म न Hindi discourse 2009 Satya Ramapremi Sridasaratha सत य र मप र म श र दशरथ Hindi discourse on the character of Dasharatha 2011 Veṇugita व ण ग त Hindi discourse on chapter 21 from Book 10 of Srimadbhagavatam Audio and video Edit 2001 Bhajana Sarayu भजन सरय Audio CD with eight bhajans devotional hymns in Hindi devoted to Rama Composed set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya Released by Yuki Cassettes Delhi 98 2001 Bhajana Yamuna भजन यम न Audio CD with seven bhajans in Hindi devoted to Krishna Composed set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya Released by Yuki Cassettes Delhi 99 2009 Sri Hanumat Bhakti श र हन मत भक त Audio CD with six bhajans in Hindi devoted to Hanuman and composed by Tulsidas Set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya Released by Kuber Music New Delhi 100 2009 Srisitaramasuprabhatam श र स त र मस प रभ तम Audio CD of Srisitaramasuprabhatam a Sanskrit Suprabhata poem Composed set to music and sung in the Vairagi Raga by Rambhadracharya Released by Yuki Cassettes Delhi 101 2009 Sundara Kaṇḍa स न दर क ण ड DVD with a musical rendition of and commentary on the Sundar Kand of Ramcharitmanas Spoken set to music and sung by Rambhadracharya Released by Yuki Cassettes Delhi 102 Literary style Edit Main article Rambhadracharya s literary style Rewa Prasad Dwivedi writes in his Sanskrit poem dedicated to Rambhadracharya that he is an encyclopaedia of learning whose literature is like numerous Narmada rivers flowing out simultaneously and in whose literary works Shiva and Parvati delight while performing Tandava and Lasya 103 Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry writes in his review of Rambhadracharya s works that Rambhadracharya is an accomplished and eloquent poet who is the foremost among scholars and is also well versed in all scriptures and who even talks in extemporaneously composed poetry with Sanskrit scholars usually in Upajati metre Rambhadracharya uses with great effect the Daṇḍaka style with Sanskrit adjectives in his speeches Shastry recounts a use of a long sentence in the Daṇḍaka style at a speech in Jaipur in July 2003 by Rambhadracharya in which one sentence with multiple adjectives lasted around seven minutes and was replete with poetic beauty Shastry writes that among Sanskrit poets only Sriharṣa poet of Naiṣadhiyacaritam has been described as having such wonderful command over Sanskrit as Rambhadracharya has 104 Shastry critiqued the work Sribhargavaraghaviyam in the January 2003 issue of the Sanskrit monthly Bharati Shastry writes that the work has poetic excellence variety of meters and dexterity of language which has not been seen hitherto in Sanskrit epics Shastry finds the twentieth canto of the epic to be an excellent illustration of Sanskrit poetry in Prakrit verses a style which was pioneered by Shastry s father 104 Dr Brajesh Dikshit Sanskrit scholar from Jabalpur says that Sribhargavaraghaviyam combines the styles of three previous Sanskrit epics it has two leading characters like in Bharavi s Kiratarjuniyam the poetic excellence and variety of prosodic metres is like in Sriharṣa s Naiṣadhiyacaritam while the length and extent of the work is like the Sisupalavadham of Magha 105 Shastry also critiqued the work Bhṛṅgadutam about which he says that it has many new usages Prayogas not seen earlier in Sanskrit poetry As per Shastry new dimensions in Sanskrit literature are seen in the play Sriraghavabhyudayam where there are songs in the Giti style and Gitaramayaṇam which is an epic poem in the Giti style of Gitagovindam by Jayadeva 104 Dikshit writes that Kubjapatram is a revival of the letter poem Patrakavya genre in Sanskrit after 2000 years and is the first work in Sanskrit literature whose lead character is disabled 105 Shastry says that rhyme Antyanuprasa is a distinguishing feature of Rambhadracharya s Sanskrit poetry Shastry notes that another feature of Rambhadracharya s works is the devotion to motherland and patriotism which is most evident in the poetic work Ajadacandrasekharacaritam on the life of Chandrashekhar Azad Shastry says that this strong feeling of love towards motherland is reminiscent of old Sanskrit literature including Prithvi Sukta of Atharva Veda various Puranas including Bhagavata Purana and also in the Sanskrit works of Swami Bhagavadacharya a former Jagadguru Ramanandacharya 104 Dikshit says that the nationalistic play Sriraghavabhyudayam establishes Rambhadracharya as a successful playwright at a young age Dikshit praises the aesthetics of the work Srisitaramakelikaumudi saying that it represents all the six Sampradayas of Indian literature Riti Rasa Alaṅkara Dhvani Vakrokti and Aucitya and that it is a unique work of Rambhadracharya when it comes to figures of speech Dikshit says that this work places Rambhadracharya in the league of Ritikavya poets like Raskhan Keshavdas Ghananand and Padmakar but observes the distinction that while the works of all these poets are primarily in the Sṛngara Rasa Srisitaramakelikaumudi is a work which has Vatsalya Rasa as the primary emotion which is augmented by Sṛngara Rasa 105 Dinkar notes that in the poems of Rambhadracharya the three poetical styles of Pancali secondary figurative sense with short and sweet sounding compounds Vaidarbhi with compounds and soft contexts and without many figures of speech and Laṭi with precise contexts and without many figures of speech are dominant 106 Recognition awards and honours EditRecognition Edit Recognition in India Rambhadracharya left being presented the Vani Alankarana Puraskara by Somnath Chatterjee right in 2006 Rambhadracharya s katha on Ramcharitmanas in June 2011 at Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple Singapore Rambhadracharya is widely popular in Chitrakoot 69 Atal Bihari Vajpayee considered Rambhadracharya to be an immensely learned person well versed in Vedic and Puranic literature besides the grammar and commended his intelligence and memory 107 Dr Murli Manohar Joshi said of Rambhadracharya that the intense knowledge of the most revered is indeed adorable 108 Nanaji Deshmukh called Rambhadracharya an astonishing gem of the country 109 Swami Kalyandev considered Rambhadracharya to be an unprecedented intellectual and speaker and an Acharya with great devotion 110 Somnath Chatterjee called him a celebrated Sanskrit scholar and educationist of great merit and achievement 5 He is considered one of the greatest scholars on Tulsidas and Ramcharitmanas in India and is cited as such 23 111 112 Ram Prakash Gupta and Keshari Nath Tripathi have stated that Rambhadracharya has enriched society with his contributions and will continue to do so 113 Swami Ramdev considers Rambhadracharya to be the most learned person in the world at present 114 Rambhadracharya was a member of a delegation of saints and Dharmacharyas which met the then president A P J Abdul Kalam and the then union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in July 2005 to hand over a memorandum urging to strengthen the security arrangements for important religious places in the country 115 Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra said that Rambhadracharya is of a high mind has a stupendous grip on the Indian literature and his soul feels the true pleasure in serving oppressed disabled people 116 Mata Prasad Pandey the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly said that Rambhadracharya has opened a door of development for those with disabilities in India and that he has achieved what eminent industrialists and the government cannot do 117 118 Energy Minister of State Independent Charge of Uttar Pradesh Vijay Mishra termed Rambhadracharya as most revered whereas Uttar Pradesh s Secondary Education Minister of State Vijay Bahadur Pal called him the chancellor of the utterly unique handicapped university 119 Rambhadracharya is also a member of the 51 members Akhil Bharatiya Sant Ucchadhikar Samiti Empowered Committee of the All India Saints 120 In November 2014 Rambhadracharya was one of the nine people nominated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Clean India Campaign 121 In September 2014 Rambhadracharya adopted five villages of Chitrakoot with an aim to construct toilets in all the households 122 Rambhadracharya was one of the guests in the inaugural International Yoga Day event in New Delhi 123 International recognitionIn 1992 Rambhadracharya led the Indian delegation at the Ninth World Conference on Ramayana held in Indonesia 13 124 He has travelled to several countries including England Mauritius Singapore and the United States to deliver discourses on Hindu religion and peace 13 125 He has been profiled in the International Who s Who of Intellectuals 126 He was also one of the key figures of the Dharma Prachar Yatra at Detroit 127 Address at Millennium World Peace SummitRambhadracharya was one of the spiritual and religious Gurus from India at the Millennium World Peace Summit organised by the United Nations in New York City from 28 to 31 August 2000 While addressing the gathering he gave Sanskrit definitions for the words Bharata the ancient name of India and Hindu and touched upon the Nirguna and Saguna aspects of God In his speech on Peace he called for developed and developing nations to come together to strive for the eradication of poverty the fight against terrorism and nuclear disarmament At the end of his speech he recited the Shanti Mantra 125 128 Awards and honours Edit Main article List of awards and honours received by Rambhadracharya In 2015 Rambhadracharya was awarded Padma Vibhushan India s second highest civilian honour 129 Rambhadracharya has been honoured by several leaders and politicians including A P J Abdul Kalam Somnath Chatterjee Shilendra Kumar Singh and Indira Gandhi 5 11 130 Several state governments including that of Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh have conferred honours on him 16 131 132 In 2021 he was also awarded with Kendra Sahitya Academy Fellowship 133 See also EditTimeline of Rambhadracharya List of Hindu gurus and saints List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for SanskritNotes EditThis section contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA For an introductory guide on IPA symbols see Help IPA For the distinction between and see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters Sanskrit जगद ग र र म नन द च र यस व म र मभद र च र य Sanskrit pronunciation dʑɐɡɐdɡʊɽʊ ɽaːmaːnɐndaːtɕaːɽjɐ sʋaːmɪ ɽaːmɐbʱɐdɽaːtɕaːɽjɐh listen Hindi जगद ग र र म नन द च र य स व म र मभद र च र य Hindi pronunciation dʒeɡedɡuru raːmaːnendaːtʃaːrje sʋaːmiː raːmbʱedraːtʃaːrje listen IAST Jagadguru Ramanandacarya Svami Ramabhadracarya Sanskrit ग र धरम श र Sanskrit pronunciation ɡɪɽɪdʱɐɽɐ mɪɕɽɐh listen Hindi ग र धर म श र Hindi pronunciation ɡiridʱer miʃre listen IAST Giridhara Misra Leaders of the Ramananda monastic order Ashukavi Two each in Sanskrit and Hindi References Edit र ष ट रब ध क अभ व सबस बड च न त प र मभ षण मह र ज र मकथ मर मज ञ The lack of national awareness is the biggest challenge Prem Bhushan Maharaj the exponent of Ram Katha Panchjanya in Hindi 16 August 2012 Archived from the original on 28 January 2016 Retrieved 24 August 2012 Sharma Richa Raj Jyoti Mishra Narayan Dutt hosts 30 April 2016 Vaartavali Sanskrit News Magazine April 30 Vaartavali in Sanskrit Doordarshan News Archived from the original on 3 March 2018 Retrieved 7 May 2016 न त य नन दम श र स व म र मभद र च र यस य श ष य ह अय Rambhadracharya Jagadguru Speaker 2003 जगद ग र र मभद र च र य व कल ग व श वव द य लय Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University CD in Hindi Chitrakoot Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University Event occurs at 00 02 16 म नवत ह म र मन द र म ह इसक एक प ज र ह व कल ग मह श वर म र म ह इनक क प भ ख र UP govt creating misconception about yatra Rambhadracharya Zee News 27 August 2013 Archived from the original on 5 October 2013 Retrieved 30 August 2013 a b c d e Address at the Presentation of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Ramkrishna Jaidayal Dalmia Shreevani Alankaran 2005 amp 2006 New Delhi 18 January 2007 Speeches The Office of Speaker Lok Sabha 18 January 2007 Archived from the original on 21 July 2011 Retrieved 8 March 2011 Swami Rambhadracharya is a celebrated Sanskrit scholar and educationist of great merit and achievement His academic accomplishments are many and several prestigious Universities have conferred their honorary degrees on him A polyglot he has composed poems in many Indian languages He has also authored about 75 books on diverse themes having a bearing on our culture heritage traditions and philosophy which have received appreciation A builder of several institutions he started the Vikalanga Vishwavidyalaya at Chitrakoot of which he is the lifelong Chancellor a b c Chandra R September 2008 ज वन य त र Life Journey Kranti Bharat Samachar in Hindi Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Rajesh Chandra Pandey 8 11 22 23 RNI No 2000 UPHIN 2638 Agarwal 2010 pp 1108 1110 a b Dinkar 2008 p 32 Nagar 2002 p 91 a b c d Correspondent Chitrakut 5 January 2011 प रज ञ चक ष क आ ख बन गई ब आ ज Buaji became the eye of the visually impaired Jagran Yahoo in Hindi Archived from the original on 22 September 2011 Retrieved 24 June 2011 a b c d e Tripathi Radhavallabh ed 2012 स स क तव द वत पर च य क Inventory of Sanskrit Scholars PDF New Delhi India Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan p 94 ISBN 978 93 8611 185 2 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Margadarsi in Telugu Hyderabad 21 October 2012 1 24 minutes in ETV Network ETV2 Archived from the original on 25 July 2013 Retrieved 25 October 2012 ఆయన శత ధ క గ ర థకర త He is the author of more than 100 books Prasad 1999 p 849 श र हन म नच ल स क सर वश र ष ठ व य ख य क ल ए द ख मह व र व य ख य ज सक ल खक ह प रज ञ चक ष आच र य श र र मभद रद सज श र हन म नच ल स क प रस त त भ ष य क आध र श र र मभद रद सज क ह व द ष यम ड त ट क ह इसक ल ए म आच र यप रवर क ऋण ह For the best explanation of Hanuman Chalisa refer the Mahaviri commentary whose author is the visually disabled Acharya Rambhadradas The base for the commentary being presented is the commentary by Rambhadradas which is adorned with erudition For this I am grateful to the eminent Acharya a b c d Dinkar 2008 pp 40 43 a b Shastri Kalanath January 2003 जगद ग र श र र मभद र च र य ण मह क व य श र भ र गवर घव यम Sribhargavaraghaviyam the epic poem of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Bharati in Sanskrit Jaipur Rajasthan Bharatiya Sanskrit Prachar Sansthanam 53 8 21 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Sarayu of devotion CD in Hindi Delhi India Yuki Cassettes YCD 119 Rambhadracharya Swami Lyricist Musician and Singer 2001 Bhajana Yamuna The river Yamuna of devotion CD in Hindi Delhi India Yuki Cassettes YCD 120 Rambhadracharya Swami Musician and Singer 2009 Sri Hanumat Bhakti Devotion to Hanuman CD in Hindi New Delhi Kuber Music KMCN 13 Rambhadracharya Swami Lyricist Musician and Singer 2009 Srisitaramasuprabhatam The beautiful dawn of Sita and Rama CD in Sanskrit Delhi India Yuki Cassettes YCD 155 Rambhadracharya Swami Speaker Musician and Singer 2009 Sundara Kaṇḍa The Sundar Kand DVD in Hindi Delhi India Yuki Cassettes DVD 2020 Dwivedi Rewa Prasad व लसन त र मभद र The revered Rambhadracharya is resplendent in Sanskrit In Sharma Sushil and Shrivastav 2011 pp 643 648 य श म स यमह भ रक टश खर द व र भवन त य क द व न क खल नर मद स त र जगत सम प ल वयन त य ग र त ष वस त क मस त द र लभम ह श र र मभक त श व यद व च प रसर ष न त यत म द द व य भव न य समम त स रस वतक शमद भ तम म श र र मभद र भ ध क सम भ वय त क 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