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Mahipati was born in a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Deshastha Brahmin|Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin]] family of Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary [[Kulkarni]] (record keeper) of Taharabad in present day [[Ahmednagar district]] of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of [[Vithoba]] of Pandharpur.<ref>Kincaid, C.A., 1919. Tales of the Saints of Pandharpur. Humphrey Milford, Bombay.</ref><ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC&pg=PP40|title=Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati's Marathi Bhaktavijaya|author1=Justin Edwards Abbott|author2=Narhar R. Godbole|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1988|page=40|isbn=978-8120804692}}</ref> | Mahipati was born in a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Deshastha Brahmin|Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin]] family of Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary [[Kulkarni]] (record keeper) of Taharabad in present day [[Ahmednagar district]] of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of [[Vithoba]] of Pandharpur.<ref>Kincaid, C.A., 1919. Tales of the Saints of Pandharpur. Humphrey Milford, Bombay.</ref><ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC&pg=PP40|title=Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati's Marathi Bhaktavijaya|author1=Justin Edwards Abbott|author2=Narhar R. Godbole|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1988|page=40|isbn=978-8120804692}}</ref> | ||
After his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He also worked for a local [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing [[Kirtan]]s on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.<ref name="CallewaertSnell1994"/> | After his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He also worked for a local [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing [[Kirtan]]s on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.<ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref> | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
During his life, Mahipati played down his abilities, his hagiographies of the [[Varkari]] saints are considered to be the most authoritative.<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> Mahipati claimed Varkari sant [[Tukaram]] as the inspiration for his writings.<ref | During his life, Mahipati played down his abilities, his hagiographies of the [[Varkari]] saints are considered to be the most authoritative.<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> Mahipati claimed Varkari sant [[Tukaram]] as the inspiration for his writings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1|year=1933|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|isbn=8120804694|pages=Chapter 9, 34–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref> | ||
Although in early part of his literary career he relied on works by [[Nabha Dass]] and Uddhava Ciddhan for his biographies, he soon realized shortcomings in their accounts of the saints and started collecting information himself. Mahipati, at times, during his life wrote multiple biographies of the same saint. He included any new information he obtained about the saint in his newer biographies. He also believed that the lives of the revered saints can not be grasped in a single sweep. Callewaert et al , therefore call the later biographies as the "revised editions of the old books.<ref name="CallewaertSnell1994"/> Mahipati wrote his biographies in the [[Ovi (poetry)|Ovi]] metre.<ref name="Kher1895"/> Christian Lee Novetzke considers Mahipati's work to be a kind of transcribed kirtan. Indeed during his life mahipati, per Novetzke, was known as a kirtankar (Kirtan performer) rather than a writer.<ref name="Novetzke2008">{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqUdRVOv9TUC|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5|page=121}}</ref> | Although in early part of his literary career he relied on works by [[Nabha Dass]] and Uddhava Ciddhan for his biographies, he soon realized shortcomings in their accounts of the saints and started collecting information himself. Mahipati, at times, during his life wrote multiple biographies of the same saint. He included any new information he obtained about the saint in his newer biographies. He also believed that the lives of the revered saints can not be grasped in a single sweep. Callewaert et al , therefore call the later biographies as the "revised editions of the old books. <ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref> Mahipati wrote his biographies in the [[Ovi (poetry)|Ovi]] metre.<ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref> Christian Lee Novetzke considers Mahipati's work to be a kind of transcribed kirtan. Indeed during his life mahipati, per Novetzke, was known as a kirtankar (Kirtan performer) rather than a writer. <ref name="Novetzke2008">{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqUdRVOv9TUC|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5|page=121}}</ref> | ||
;Selected Works<ref name="Kher1895"/> | ;Selected Works<ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref> | ||
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==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
*An English translation of ''[[Bhaktavijaya]]'', originally written by Mahipati around 1762,<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> was published under the provisions of the will of American Missionary, Justin E. Abbott in 1933.<ref | *An English translation of ''[[Bhaktavijaya]]'', originally written by Mahipati around 1762,<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> was published under the provisions of the will of American Missionary, Justin E. Abbott in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1|year=1933|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|isbn=8120804694|pages=Chapter 9, 34–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref><ref name="CallewaertSnell1994"/> | ||
* Mahipati's town of Tahrabad has declared as a pilgrimage site by the government of Maharashtra. A pilgrim guest house has been constructed in the town for Mahipati devotees. | * Mahipati's town of Tahrabad has declared as a pilgrimage site by the government of Maharashtra. A pilgrim guest house has been constructed in the town for Mahipati devotees. | ||
*The pilgrimage complex in tahrabad includes his house, a Vitthal temple and a memorial to Mahipati consisting of a [[Tulasi chaura|Tulasi Vrindavan]]. | *The pilgrimage complex in tahrabad includes his house, a Vitthal temple and a memorial to Mahipati consisting of a [[Tulasi chaura|Tulasi Vrindavan]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:58, 5 July 2021
Mahipati (1715 - 1790) [1][2] was an 18th century Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu Vaishnava sants who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Maharashtra and other regions of India.[3][4]
Early life[edit]
Mahipati was born in a Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family of Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary Kulkarni (record keeper) of Taharabad in present day Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of Vithoba of Pandharpur.[5][6][7] After his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He also worked for a local Mughal landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing Kirtans on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.[4]
Works[edit]
During his life, Mahipati played down his abilities, his hagiographies of the Varkari saints are considered to be the most authoritative.[3] Mahipati claimed Varkari sant Tukaram as the inspiration for his writings.[8] Although in early part of his literary career he relied on works by Nabha Dass and Uddhava Ciddhan for his biographies, he soon realized shortcomings in their accounts of the saints and started collecting information himself. Mahipati, at times, during his life wrote multiple biographies of the same saint. He included any new information he obtained about the saint in his newer biographies. He also believed that the lives of the revered saints can not be grasped in a single sweep. Callewaert et al , therefore call the later biographies as the "revised editions of the old books. [4] Mahipati wrote his biographies in the Ovi metre.[6] Christian Lee Novetzke considers Mahipati's work to be a kind of transcribed kirtan. Indeed during his life mahipati, per Novetzke, was known as a kirtankar (Kirtan performer) rather than a writer. [9]
- Selected Works[6]
| Work | Chapters | Number of Ovis | Year of Composition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhaktavijaya | 57 | 9916 | 1762 |
| Kathasaramrita (1765) | 12 | 7200 | 1765 |
| Santalilaamrit (1757) | 35 | 5259 | 1757 |
| Bhaktalilaamrit (1774) | 51 | 10794 | 1774 |
| Santavijayaश् | 26 (incomplete) | 4628 | 1796 |
| Pandharimahatmya | 12 | - | - |
| Anantvratkatha | - | 186 | - |
| dattatryeya janma | - | 112 | - |
| tulasi Mahatmya | 5 | 763 | - |
| Ganeshpuran | 4 (Incomplete) | 304 | - |
| Pandurang stotra | - | 308 | - |
| Muktabharan vrat | - | 101 | - |
| Rishpanchami vrat | - | 142 | - |
| Apradh nivedan stotra | - | 101 | - |
| Sphut abhang and stotre | - | - | - |
Legacy[edit]
- An English translation of Bhaktavijaya, originally written by Mahipati around 1762,[3] was published under the provisions of the will of American Missionary, Justin E. Abbott in 1933.[10][4]
- Mahipati's town of Tahrabad has declared as a pilgrimage site by the government of Maharashtra. A pilgrim guest house has been constructed in the town for Mahipati devotees.
- The pilgrimage complex in tahrabad includes his house, a Vitthal temple and a memorial to Mahipati consisting of a Tulasi Vrindavan.
- Mahipati used to perform the annual Pandharpur Wari during his lifetime. The tradition continues with his symbolic sandals taken to Pandharpur from Tahrabad by his followers.
Gallery[edit]
Mahipati Well in Taharabad
Mahipati Memorial in Taharabad
Mahipati Temple in Taharabad
Mahipati Paduka ( Ceremonial Sandals) in Taharabad
References[edit]
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Lutgendorf, Philip (2007). Hanuman's tale the messages of a divine monkey ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0195309225.
- ↑ Lochtefeld, James G. (2002). The illustrated encyclopedia of Hinduism (1st. ed.). New York: Rosen. p. 409. ISBN 9780823931798.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Novetzke, Christian Lee (1969). Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. New York Chichester: Columbia University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0231-14184-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Winand M. Callewaert; Rupert Snell (1994). According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 162–166. ISBN 978-3-447-03524-8.
- ↑ Kincaid, C.A., 1919. Tales of the Saints of Pandharpur. Humphrey Milford, Bombay.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Appaji Kashinath Kher (1895). A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ... pp. 451–.
- ↑ Justin Edwards Abbott; Narhar R. Godbole (1988). Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati's Marathi Bhaktavijaya. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 40. ISBN 978-8120804692.
- ↑ Abbott, Justin E. (1933). Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1. Motilal Banarasidass Publishers. pp. Chapter 9, 34–45. ISBN 8120804694.
- ↑ Christian Lee Novetzke (1 July 2008). Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. Columbia University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-231-51256-5.
- ↑ Abbott, Justin E. (1933). Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1. Motilal Banarasidass Publishers. pp. Chapter 9, 34–45. ISBN 8120804694.
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