Om Sai Ram - Today is the 507th Birthday of Sri Annamacharya

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Today is the 507th Birthday of Sri Annamacharya.

 

Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya (1408-1503) was born in Tallapaka, a remote village in Andhra Pradesh, This Mystic Saint Composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called “Sankeertanas†in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala where unbroken worship is being offered for over 12 centuries. Annamcharya is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Venkateswara's Nandaka or Sword.

 

Annamacharya is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Venkateswara’s Nandaka or Sword. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) have consecrated Annamacharya in two places, one in the Annamacharya Mandiram located in the Annamacharya Project Office premises at Tiruapati and the other one in Annamacharya temple at Tallapka the birth place of Annamcharya.

 

During his long and prolific career, Annamacharya composed and sang 32,000 Sankirtanas.

 

Annamacharya wrote the sankirtanas on palm leaves and later his son Tirumalacharya got them engraved on copper plates. But for reasons not known, most of these copper plates lay hidden in a rock built cell opposite to Hundi in the Tirumala temple unnoticed for over 400 years.

 

In 1922, twenty five hundred copper plates, comprising of about 14,000 sankIrtanas and a few other works, were found in a rock built cell, later named as Sankirtana Bhandagaram, opposite to the Hundi.

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