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<p>2401:4900:1C26:2FBA:2CD4:ABF9:E64F:8544: Correcting the fake information and baseless addition</p> <hr /> <div>{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}<br /> {{Italic title}}<br /> [[File:Tanjore Nayak Kingdom.jpg|thumb|Tanjore Nayak Kingdom]]<br /> The '''''Raghunāthābhyudayam''''' (or ''Raghunāthā-bhyudayam'', ''Raghunāthābhyudaya'', ''Ragunatha Abhyudaya'') by [[Rāmabhadrāmbā]], one of the wives of the [[Thanjavur Nayak]] king [[Raghunatha Nayak]] (r. 1600-34), is a Sanskrit ''[[Mahakavya|mahākāvya]]'' in twelve cantos. It was designed to valorise Raghunatha, situating his career as a type of the life of Rāma-Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa.&lt;ref&gt;Davesh Soneji, ''Performing Satyabhimi: Text, Context, Memory and Mimesis in Telugu-Speaking South India'' (unpublished PhD thesis, McGill University 2004), p. 53.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The first few cantos of the poem invoke Raghunatha, seeking his patronage and assistance, and praise his generosity, piety, and intellect. In ''Raghunāthābhyudaya'' Raghunadha Nayaka was praised as a Balija Vakkana. Canto 4 presents Raghunatha's ancestry and the subsequent cantos discuss his early life and military successes. He succeeds his father [[Achuthappa Nayak]] in canto 8 and continues with his military exploits. The last two cantos focus on the cultural activities and artistic achievements of his court, with a colophon in which Rāmabhadrāmbā emphasises her own merits.<br /> <br /> The poem was first brought to scholarly attention by [[S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar]] in 1919, after he found it in November 1916.&lt;ref&gt;Rāmabhadrāmbā, 'Raghunāthābhyudayam', in ''Sources of Vijayanagar History (Selected and Edited for the University)'', ed. by S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar [and A. Rangaswami Sarasvati], The Madras University Historical Series, 1 (Madras: University of Madras, 1919), pp. 284-302 [no. 91] (p. 284), https://archive.org/details/sourcesofvijayan00krisrich.&lt;/ref&gt; The poem was fiercely criticised by an early reviewer of the first scholarly edition, who claimed that Rāmabhadrāmbā 'had thoroughly assimilated the art of composing a poem of surpassing tediousness and consisting of the most abject flattery of her royal patron' and did not think the poem would have any interest to historians.&lt;ref&gt;J. C., review of ''Raghunāthābhyudaya of Rāmabhadrāmbā (A Historical Poem)''. Edited by T. R. Chintamani. (Bulletins of the Sanskrit Department, No. 2.) pp. viii + 78. University of Madras, 1934. ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'', 7 (1935), 961-62, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00086377&lt;/ref&gt; But it has since been identified as a significant source for the cultural history of seventeenth-century south India.&lt;ref&gt;Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman, 'History, Biography and Poetry at the Tanjavur Nayaka Court', ''Social Analysis'' 25 (1989), 115–130.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Rāmabhadrāmbā's Sanskrit ''Raghunāthābhyudayam'' is not to be confused with the identically named Telugu poem the ''Raghunāthābhyudayam'' and the similarly named ''Raghunāthanāyakabhyudayamu'', both composed by Raghunatha's eldest son and successor, [[Vijaya Raghava Nayak|Vijayarāghava Nāyaka]].&lt;ref&gt;''Raghunāthanāyakābhyudayamu and Raghunāthābhyudayamu'', ed. by N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, Madras: Government Oriental Series, 49/Tanjore Saraswathi Mahal Series, 32 (Madras, 1951).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Editions and translations==<br /> * Rāmabhadrāmbā, 'Raghunāthābhyudayam', in ''Sources of Vijayanagar History (Selected and Edited for the University)'', ed. by S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar [and A. Rangaswami Sarasvati], The Madras University Historical Series, 1 (Madras: University of Madras, 1919), pp.&amp;nbsp;284–302 [no. 91], https://archive.org/details/sourcesofvijayan00krisrich. [Abridged edition and translation.]<br /> * ''Raghunāthābhyudayamahākāvyam: Rāmabhadrāmbāviracitam'', ed. by Ti. Rā. Cintāmaṇiḥ, Bulletins of the Sanskrit Department, University of Madras, 2 ([Madras]: Madrapurīyaviśvavidyālayaḥ, 1934)<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Indian literature]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{poem-stub}}<br /> {{India-lit-stub}}<br /> {{en-Wikipedia}}</div>

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