Kavi Karnapura or Kavikarnapura (Bengali: কবি কর্ণপুরা, born as Parmananda Sen) was a 16th-century Indian Bengali poet in Sanskrit; best known for verse works, Chaitanya Charanamrita (Mahakavya) and Chaitanya Chandrodaya (Nataka).[1][2] He was a junior contemporary of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.[3]
Kavi Karnapura | |
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| Native name | কবি কর্ণপুরা |
| Born | Paramananda Sen 1524 Nadia, West Bengal |
| Died | DOD unknown Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh |
| Occupation | Poet, saint |
| Language | Bengali |
| Genre | Gaudiya vaishnavism philosophy |
| Notable works | Chaitanya Charanamrita, Chaitanya Chandrodaya, Alamkara-Kaustubha, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Candrasya Sahasranama Stotram, Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika. |
Life and works edit
Kavi Karnapura was born as (Paramananda Sen) the son of Shivananda Sen, a Vaidya[4] and a prominent disciple of Chaitanya. He was born on 1524 in Nadia district of Bengal, about a decade before Chaitanya's passing in 1533 and met Chaitanya several times in Puri and was received the honorific title of 'Kavi Karnapura' (he who adorns the poets' ears with nectar of poetry[5]) by Svarup Damodar. He was spent his last days at Vrindavan.[6]
He has written extensively on the life and teaching of Chaitanya and on the faith of bhakti movement. These include the 'Mahakavya' and 'Nataka' referred to earlier, Alamkara-Kaustubha (on devotional sentiments), Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika (Hagiology), Ananda -Vrindavana-Champa (Interpretation of Krishnalila) and a commentary on the Srimad Bhagavat. Karnapura sought to systematize the faith within a theoretical framework.[3]
References edit
- ^ DR. VISHNULOK BIHARI SRIVASTAVA (15 November 2012). Dictionary Of Indology. V&S Publishers. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-93-5057-235-1.
- ^ Sujit Mukherjee (1998). A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850. Orient Blackswan. pp. 174–. ISBN 978-81-250-1453-9.
- ^ a b Hitesranjan Sanyal (13 December 2018). Trends of Change in Bhakti Movement in Bengal. OUP India. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-19-909562-9.
- ^ Karṇapūra (1854). Chaitanya-chandrodaya; Or, The Incarnation of Chaitanya: A Drama in Ten Acts. With a Commentary Explanatory of the Prákrita Passages. J. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press. pp. 6–.
- ^ Rembert Lutjeharms (23 August 2018). A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal: Kavikarnapura's Splendour of Speech. OUP Oxford. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-0-19-256192-3.
- ^ Aloka Lahiri (1993). Chaitanya Movement in Eastern India. Punthi Pustak. ISBN 978-81-85094-67-0.