Melpathur narayana bhattathiri biography of alberta

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He stayed in the Devi temple there for around 20 years, and he wrote his last work there. Each set of 10 poems ends with a prayer for early cure. It may be because of this belief that Bhattathiri went to Guruvayur.

While Narayana Bhattathiri was composing Narayaneeyam in Guruvayur temple, Poonthanam, another great poet who wrote in Malayalam, had also come there to worship Krishna.

Unable to see his pain, by yogic strength and by way of Gurdakshina, Bhattathri is said to have taken the disease upon himself and relieved his guru. In 100 days he finished his compositions, and his condition gradually improved day by day. Bhattathiri's father was Mathrudattar, a pandit himself. The 100th canto composed on that day gives a graphic description of this form of the Lord from the head to the foot.

One poem says that he lived for 106 years, and accordingly he should have died in 1666. It was written by Bhattathiri in 1586 AD and gives a summary of 18,000 verses of the Bhagavata Purana.

Pisharadi has been affected by rheumatism. He became a pandit by the age of 16.

The Narayaneeyam is a devotional Sanskrit work, in the form of a poetical hymn, consisting of 1036 verses (called 'slokas' in Sanskrit). Accordingly, he lived in many places after his cure of rheumatism, like Kochi, Ambalapuzha, Kozhikode and finally he settled in Mookkola near Changaramkulam in the present-day Malappuram district.

He was a mathematical linguist (vyakarana). To relieve Narayana of this disease, Ezhuthachan, a Malayalam poet and Sanskrit scholar hinted- "meen thottu koottuka" (start with the fish). He was born in 1560 in a pious Brahmin family, as the son of Mathrudattan Bhattathiri, a pandit himself. One day he took some of his Malayalam poem to Bhattathiri to correct them but was dismissed with the haughty remark that Poonthanam didn't know the correct meaning of words.

Narayaneeyam was written during the year AD 1586.

Bhattathiri's Vyakarana (sanskrit grammar) Guru, Achyuta Pisharati, was struck with paralysis. On the face of it, the suggestion would seem offensive to an orthodox Malayali Brahmin, who are strict vegetarians. The 100th canto composed on that day gives a graphic description of this form of the Lord from the head to the foot.

Every day, he sang 10 shlokas on Sri Guruvayoorappan. He was 27 then. The Melputtur family is now extinct and it is said that it was merged into the Maravancheri Thekkedathu family. The refrain in last sloka of every dasaka is a prayer to him to remove his ailments and sufferings.