Vedanta Deshika Vijaya Champu - by Kaushika Kavisimha

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Swamy Deshikan Thiruvadigale Sharanam !!!

 

adiyEn is the happy reciever of a very rare work on Swamy Deshikan -

"Vedanta Deshika Vijaya Champu". This work has been authored by Kaushika

Kavi Simha who belonged to the paravastu lineage. Though nothing more than

this is known about the author, scholars have estimated that this work must

have been composed around 200 years ago. This makes him a possible

contemporary of Raghunathadhvari and his son Venkatadhvari, the descendants

of Appullar, Swamy Deshikan's maternal uncle.

 

The work is written in champu style which is a mix of padya and gadya that

is poetry and prose. The work has six stabakas or chapters. Every chapter

has around 90 shlokas and 4 to 5 gadyams on Swamy Deshikan with each gadyam

running to a page or sometimes a few lines.

 

This work has been published very few times recently. The first was by

Parakala mutt with the assistance of the Maharaja of Mysore and the second

one in Madras. The publication in Madras carried an introduction to this

work by the great Uttamur Maha Deshikan. It also mentions that there are

vyakhyanams present for this work. There is one quote saying that there was

one vyakhyanam available for the first two stabakas while another one

covered the remaining four.

 

This work will be included in the CD on Swamy Deshikan. Transliteration has

already started with the third stabakam going on at present.

 

If any bhagavatha has more info on this work, the author or the vyakhyanams

kindly write to me.

 

vAzhi vyAkhyA muddirakkai !!!

vedantasUri charaNau sharaNam prapadye !!!