Essay on srimanta sankardev

Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev was a great scholar and literacy genius. His major literacy creations are the “ Kirtan Ghosa” , “ Gunamala” etc. The holy songs written by him are known as “Borgeet”. The dramas written by him are known as “Ankia Naat” and Sattriya Dance at that time was a part of it.

Datyari, an early biographer of Sankardev writes: Sankardev listened with rapt attention to the exposition by Jagadish Mishra and realised that the Bhagavata was a scripture without parallel, a scripture that determined Krishna as the only God, naam as the real dharma, and aikantika-sarana and sat-sanga as the indispensable elements of the faith."

These are generally classed in two groups: early (those by Daityari Thakur, Bhusan Dwija, Ramananda Dwija and Vaikuntha Dwija) and late ( Guruvarnana by Aniruddha Das, the more than one anonymous Katha-guru-carits, Bardowa-carit, Sankardev caritra from Barpeta, the Saru-svarga-khanda and Bar-svarga-khanda by Sarvabhauma).

Srimanta Sankardev ([ˈʃrɪˌmʌntə ˈʃænkə(r)ˌdeɪv]; Assamese pronunciation: [mɔɦapurux sɹimɔntɔ xɔŋkɔɹdɛɰ], 1449–1568) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath: a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India.