Madhava Kandali

Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam. His Saptakanda Ramayana is considered the earliest translation of the Ramayana into an Indo-Aryan language, Assamese.[1] Another significant work of his is the narrative poem Devajit, which is about superiority of Krishna over the other avatars of Vishnu.[2] Kandali's patron was the Barāha King Mahamanikya (mid 14th century)[3] whose kingdom was located in the Kapili valley.[4] Kabiraja Madhava Kandali was said to be inhabitant of Lanka of Undivided Nagaon.[5]

Madhava Kandali
LanguageAssamese
Period1400's
Notable worksSaptakanda Ramayana

Musical instruments

He lists several instruments in his "Ramayana", such as mardala(a type of wooden Mridanga), khumuchi, bhemachi, dagar, gratal, ramtal, tabal, jhajhar, jinjiri, bheri mahari, tokari, dosari, kendara, dotara, vina, rudra-vipanchi, etc. (meaning that these instruments existed since his time in 14th century or earlier).[6][7]

References
  1. Kandali, Aditya Bihar; Routray, Aurobinda; Basu, Tapan Kumar (November 2008). "Emotion recognition from Assamese speeches using MFCC features and GMM classifier". TENCON 2008 - 2008 IEEE Region 10 Conference. IEEE: 1–5. doi:10.1109/tencon.2008.4766487. ISBN 9781424424085.
  2. Sarma, Satyendranath. (1976). Assamese literature. Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447017368. OCLC 886671648.
  3. "Madhav Kandali" (PDF). Barāha King Mahamanikya.
  4. Stone inscription of Barāha king Mahamanik of the mid 14th century
  5. (Thakuria 2015:164) saka 1274 / 1352 A.D
  6. Suresh Kant Sharma and Usha Sharma, 2005, Discovery of North-East India, Page 288.
  7. Goswāmī, Māmaṇi Raẏachama, 1942-2011. (1996). Rāmāyaṇa from Gangā to Brahmaputra. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp. ISBN 817018858X. OCLC 47208217.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Bibliography
  • Thakuria, Gitanjali (2015). "SURVEY OF THE INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR TECHNICAL ASPECTS". Studies in the inscriptions of medieval assam (PhD). Guwahati University. hdl:10603/50862.


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