Shri Bhaskararaya - 1

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namaste ,

 

i just typed in what was written about Shrii Bhaskararaya

in a book.

this book was published in 1942. Will that copy right still work? or it it ok

to reproduce that material here

 

The biography is very small 2 or 3 pages.

 

i will type the remaining later

 

 

There was once a Brahmana , named Gambhira raya , of visvamitra gotra.He was

famous alike for his learning,character,intellect and wealth. A ruler of the

Vjaya nagar Kingdom engaged Gambhira-raya to give an exposition of the Maha

bharata in his court.he was so much pleased with Gambhira-rayasperformance

that he conferred upon him the hereditary title of Bharati. Gambhira rayas

wife ,Konamamba,gave birth to Bhaskara raya in the town of Bhaaga.

Bhaskaras upanayana was performed at Benares by his father and he was placed

under the tuition os Narasimhadhvarin,who taught him all the 18 vidyas. The

progress of his studies was greatlyaccelerated by the fact that eve when he was

a mere boy he was initiated by his father into the worship of Sarasvati.It is

narrated that ,when he was only a boy of seven years of age ,he was able to

excite the admiration of Sabhesvara by his dialectical ability .After mastering

the Gauda tarka under Gangadhara Vajapeyin,he was married to a girl named

Aanandi who presented him with a son named Pandu ranga.Seeeing that the Atharva

Veda had gone out of use owing to a braek in sampradaya , he undertook the

laborious task of mastering that veda and teaching it to a number of

Braahmanas.It was he who popularised the Devi Bhagavata Maha Purana and the

Adbhuta kanda the eigth kanda of the Ramayana. He initiated his wife into the

worship of Sri-vidya and gave her the name of Padmavaty-ambika. He himself

underwent diksha of Purnabhisheka under the teacher,Siva datta Sukla.He then

undertook a tour in Gujarat and there vanquished in debate a teacher of the

vallbha sampradaya.

....to continue

 

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satish

 

 

 

 

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