Avadhana : Recently I met a great scholar Shatavadhani Dr R Ganesh Ji Shatavadhani R. Ganesh (4 December 1962) is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. He has performed more than 1000 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Prakrit. He is known for extempore composition of poetry (āśukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya. He is the only Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka. He once set a record by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously.From November 30, 2012 to December 2, 2012, he performed the first ever Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada. On February 16, 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his 1000th avadhāna. Shatavadhani Dr R Ganesh is also a mechanical engineer and has done his post-graduation in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A polyglot, he can read, write and compose poetry in almost all major Indian languages and in classical Greek and Latin. Avadhana is a literary performance popular from the very ancient days in India, cultivated by the Jains in India and revived by Telugu and Kannada poets in modern times. It involves the partial improvisation of poems using specific themes, metres, forms, or words. It requires immense memory power and tests a persons capability of performing multiple tasks simultaneously. Here is a video on Avadhana : https://youtube/watch?v=a3HHFTcDja8
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:02:23 +0000
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