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Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya,(Sanskrit: जगद्गुरुरामानन्दाचार्यस्वामिरामभद्राचार्यः, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɟəɡəd̪ɡuru-raːmaːnənd̪aːcaːrjə-sʋaːmi-rɑːməbʱəd̪rɑːcɑːrjəɦ]; Hindi: जगद्गुरु रामानन्दाचार्य स्वामी रामभद्राचार्य, Hindi pronunciation: [ɟəɡəd̪ɡuru raːmaːnənd̪aːcaːrjə sʋaːmiː rɑːmbʱəd̪rɑːcɑːrjə]; IAST: Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya Svāmī Rāmabhadrācārya), born 14 January 1950 as Giridhar Mishra, is a Hindu religious leader, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharya, and has held this title since 1988.
Rambhadracharya is the establisher and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and social service institution named after saint Tulsidas, located in Chitrakoot. 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. Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months. He has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose.
Rambhadracharya can speak 22 languages, is a spontaneous poet, and writer in Sanskrit, Hindi, Awadhi, Maithili, and several other languages. He has composed more than 90 works, including four epic poems, two each in Sanskrit and Hindi. a Hindi commentary on Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas, a Sanskrit commentary in prose on the Ashtadhyayi, and Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures. He is regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Tulsidas in India, and is the editor of a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas. He is 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 Sanskar TV and Sanatan TV.
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Aṣṭāvakra (2010) is a Hindi epic poem (Mahakavya) composed by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (1950–) in the year 2009. It consists of 864 verses in 8 cantos (sargas) of 108 verses each. The poem presents the narrative of the Ṛṣi Aṣṭāvakra which is found in the Hindu scriptures of the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata. A copy of the epic was published by the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, Chitrakuta, Uttar Pradesh. The book was released on January 14, 2010, on the sixtieth birthday (Ṣaṣṭipūrti) of the poet.
The protagonist of the epic, Aṣṭāvakra, is physically disabled with eight deformities in his body. The epic presents his journey from adversity to success to final redemption. According to the poet, who is also disabled having lost his eyesight at the age of two months, the notions of aphoristic solutions for universal difficulties of the disabled are presented the epic, and the eight cantos are the analyses of the eight dispositions in the mind of the disabled.
Did you know...
- ... that Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Uttar Pradesh, India, is the world's first university which is exclusively for the disabled?
- ... that At the end of his speech at Millennium World Peace Summit, organised by the United Nations in New York City from 28–31 August 2000, Jagadguru Rambhadracharya recited the Shanti Mantra?
- ... that the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, offered to send Jagadguru Rambhadracharya to the United States of America for treatment of his eyes from her own personal funds, but he turned down this offer by replying with an extemporaneously-composed Sanskrit verse?
- ... that 2004 Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit was given to Swami Rambhadracharya for his epic Sribhargavaraghaviyam?
- ... that Jagadguru Rambhadracharya received a research fellowship from the University Grants Commission after enrolling for the doctoral Vidyavaridhi (PhD) degree?
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Jagadguru Rambhadracharya meditating on the rocks on the banks of Mandakini river in Chitrakuta, India during one of his Payovratas (six-month milk and fruit only diet). He is seated in the Sukhasana and his hands are in the Dhyana Mudra, 7 August 2011. Selected quote
“ Why did you fight with my Giridhara (Kṛṣṇa)? You are a young maiden, and my Giridhara (Kṛṣṇa) is but a child, why did you hold his arm? My Giridhara (Kṛṣṇa) is crying, sobbing repeatedly, and you stand [looking at him] smirkingly! O Ahir lady (cowherd girl), you are excessively inclined to quarrel, and come and stand here uninvited." Giridhara (the poet) sings - so says Yaśodā, holding on to the hand of Giridhara (Kṛṣṇa) and covering [her face] with the end of her Sari. ” —Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
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Today is November 24, 2011 - September 02, 2011:Rishi Panchmi, also known as Sanskrit Day, was celebrated at Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University under the presence of Jagadguru Rambhadracharya. Students and staff of JRHU, including the Vice-chancellor Dr. B. Pandey, were present at the function and praised Sanskrit poems and speeches made by the Sanskrit Department people. Views were expressed on ways to improve the present state of the Sanskrit language. Dr. K.B. Pandey, the Vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Gramodaya University, Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh attended the function as Chief Guest. Tulsi Peeth News
- August 63, 2011:On the eve of Tulsi Jayanti, birthday of Tulasidas, Morari Bapu presented the Tulsi Award 2011 to Jagadguru Rambhadracharya in a function held at Mahuva. As Rambhadracharya was observing his Chaturmaasa at Chitrakuta, he could not attend the ceremony in Gujarat to receive the award personally, but expressed his feelings towards Morari Bapu through a letter. Dr. Gita Devi Misra and Acharya Chandradutt Suvedi travelled to Mahuva to receive the award on the behalf of Rambhadracharya. Fulchhab
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- Aṣṭādhyāyyāḥ Pratisūtraṃ Śābdabodhasamīkṣaṇam
- Ashtavakra
- Bhrngadutam
- Gitaramayanam
- Sribhargavaraghaviyam
- Srisitaramakelikaumudi
- Srisitaramasuprabhatam
Prose - Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam
- Bhāvārthabodhinī
- Adhyātmarāmāyaṇe Apāṇinīyaprayogānāṃ Vimarśaḥ
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