Anandabharati Aiyangar (1786–1846) was an Indian Tamil-language poet and dramatist.

Personal life

Anandabharati was born in 1786 at Umeiyammalpuram near

Thanjavur Thanjavur (), also Tanjore, Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is the 11th biggest city in Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is an important center of South Indian religion, art, and architecture. Most of the Gr ...

. He was the son of a wealthy ''mirasdar'' (

landlord A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a ''lessee'' or ''renter''). When a juristic person is in this position, the ...

) named Srinivasa Aiyangar. At the age of thirteen, he composed a drama named ''Nondi'' in praise of ''Yaneimelazhagar'', the patron deity of his village. Soon afterwards, he migrated, along with his father, to Thiruvallur, where he lived for three years. From the age of fifteen, he was successively employed as the ''karnam'' and ''Samprathi'' of two different temples in Thanjavur. At the age of twenty-five, he resigned his job and settled down at Tiruvidaimarudur where he spent the rest of his life writing poems. Aiyarappa Tambiran, the ''dharmakarta'' of the shrine at Tiruvidaimarudur was so pleased at a drama written by him in praise of the presiding deity that he honored him with the gift of a house and garden, and conferred on him the title of ''Kavirajaswami''. Anandabharati Aiyangar died in 1846 at the age of sixty.

Poetic compositions

Some of his famous poetical compositions are ''Uttara Ramayana Kirtana'', ''Desikaprabandham'', ''Bagavata Dasamaskanda Nadagam'', ''Marudur Venba'' and ''Muppattirattu''. He also composed hymns in honor of the Saivite shrines at Tiruchirapalli, Tirukadanthai and Thiruvaduthurai.

References

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