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Govinda Dikshita (Dikshitar) was the minister of three successive

Nayaks of Thanjavur, who ruled the region of Thanjavur in South India between the 16th and 17th centuries CE.[1]

About the scholar

Govinda Dikshita was a scholar, philosopher, statesman and musicologist. He was a

mandap in front of the Amman shrine.[3]

Legend associates him with Tirunageswaram, a village located 6 km from Kumbakonam in the Kumbakonam - Karaikal road and also with Patteswaram, 6 km south east of Kumbakonam.[4] The name of his wife is ascertained as Nagamba. But the presence of the idol of Dikshita in the premises of Patteswaram temple and presence of ruins of his house in the village outskirts confirm his private location to be Patteeswaram. His location is also believed to be Tirupalathurai, near Papanasam.[4] Life like images of Govinda Dikshithar is now worshipped at Patteswaram, with the presiding deity of Linga also called "Govinda Dikshita lingam".[4] Dikshita spent his early years in Vijayanagara kingdom where he attained his education. Dikshita is a Karnataka Brahmin of Asvalayana sutra of Rig veda.[4]

Carnatic Music

Dikshita is spoken of as 'One of the Trio of Theoreticians' of modern period; the others being Ramamatya and Somanatha. The Nayaks brought with them the glorious tradition of their country to the fertile regions of river

Cauvery. The Nayaks donated an entire village to 500 Brahmin families for fostering art and learning. Other fertile villages were encouraged to become seats of music and learning as Nayaks gave them to Telugu families. Muvanallur, Tepperumanallur, Sulamangalam, Uthukadu and Saliyamangalam can be cited as examples.[5]

Govinda Dikshita was the father of another musicologist, Venkatamakhin, who is noted for his Chaturdandiprakashika, a treatise which formed the basis of the melakarta system of classification used in Carnatic music today.[6]

Construction

Dikshita is believed to have constructed the

Chakrapani Temple, Kumbakonam.[7] In 1542, Dikshita is founded Raja Veda Kavya Patashala in Kumbakonam, which is even today a centre for learning Vedic education.[8][9]

Notes

  1. ISBN 9788120609969
    .
  2. ^ History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its Literature: From the Earliest Beginnings to Our Own Times. B. N. K. Sharma, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2000.
  3. ^ Encyclopaedia of the Śaivism .Swami P. Anand, Swami Parmeshwaranand
  4. ^ a b c d N.K. 1933, pp. 1-2
  5. ^ Music as history in Tamilnadu. T.K. Venkatasubramanian
  6. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
    . Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. ^ Diaspora of the gods: modern Hindu temples in an urban middle-class world .P.246. Joanne Punzo Waghorne
  8. ^ Venkataramanan, Geetha (7 May 2015). "Four centuries and after". The Hindu.
  9. ^ http://rajavedapatasala.org/

References

  • N.K., Venkatesam Pantulu (1933). Govinda Deekshita - Minister of the Tanjore Nayak kings. Rajahmundry: La;i;e Veeraraja's Andrha Vachana Bharatamu, Sabha Parvamu.
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