Pitambara Sidhanta Vagisa (1530-1620) was 16th century litterateur from Kamrup and contemporary of likes of Damodara Mishra.

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Smriti writers Pitambara Siddhantavagisa, Damodar Misra & Shambhunatha Siddhantavagisha and others developed what may be called a Kamarupa school of Dharmashastra. It was royal patronage from the

Kamata kingdom The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarupa kingdom, a ...

, & later the Ahom kingdom that helped in the dissemination of Sanskrit learning and culture throughout the

Brahmaputra valley The Brahmaputra Valley is a region situated between hill ranges of the eastern and northeastern Himalayan range in Eastern India. The valley consists of the Western Brahmaputra Valley covering the regions of Goalpara and Kamrup; the Central ...

. Under the patronage of the Kamata king Naranarayana, Siddhantavagisha wrote 18

Smriti ''Smriti'' ( sa, स्मृति, IAST: '), literally "that which is remembered" are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that ...

digests. ''Brihat Rajavamshavali'' of King Harendranarayana of Coochbihar records their names as # ''Danda kaumudi'' - dealing with criminal law # ''Preta kaumudi'' - dealing with funerary rites & afterlife # ''Vrishotsarga kaumudi'' - dealing with the rite of vrishotsarga # ''Pramana kaumudi'' - dealing with judicial procedure # ''Shraddha kaumudi'' - dealing with sraddha ceremony # ''Durgotsava kaumudi'' - dealing with

Durga Puja Durga Puja ( bn, দুর্গা পূজা), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsava, is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated ...

# ''Ekadashi kaumudi'' - dealing with rites to be performed on

ekadashi Ekadashi () is the eleventh lunar day (''tithi'') of each of the two lunar phases which occur in an Vedic calendar month - the '' Shukla Pakṣa'' (the period of the brightening moon also known as the waxing phase) and the ''Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa ...

# ''Shuddhi kaumudi'' - dealing with rites of purification # ''Pratistha kaumudi'' - dealing with rites of consecration # ''Sankalpa kaumudi'' - dealing with the rites of ''sankalpa'' # ''Prayascitta kaumudi'' - dealing with the rites of penitence # ''Tirtha kaumudi'' - dealing with the rites of pilgrimage # ''Kala kaumudi'' - dealing with festivals to be celebrated throughout the year # ''Diksha kaumudi'' - dealing with the rites of initiation # ''Sambandha kaumudi'' - dealing with the concept of family relationships & choice of potential spouses # ''Tithi kaumudi'' - dealing with rites to be observed on specific days of the fortnight # ''Daya kaumudi'' - dealing with laws of inheritance # ''Achara kaumudi'' - dealing with proper conduct Siddhantavagisha is also stated to have authored a Sanskrit drama named ''Usha-harana'', dealing with the affair of Usha, the daughter of the

Prahlada Prahlada () is an asura king in Hindu mythology. He is known for his staunch devotion towards the preserver deity, Vishnu. He appears in the narrative of Narasimha, the man-lion avatar of Vishnu, who rescues Prahlada by slaying his wicked fa ...

's great-grandson

Banasura Bana, also referred to as Banasura (), is an asura king in Hindu mythology, ruling from the city of Śoṇitapura. He is described to be the son of Mahabali. His tale of battling Krishna is described in the Bhagavata Purana. Legend A mighty ...

(who is believed to have reigned from

Sonitpur Sonitpur district ron: ˌsə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊə or ˌʃə(ʊ)nɪtˈpʊəis an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located at Tezpur. Etymology The name of the is derived from a mythological story fo ...

) with

Aniruddha Aniruddha ( sa, अनिरुद्ध ') is a character in Hindu mythology, the son of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, and the grandson of Krishna and Rukmini. He is said to have been very much like his grandfather, to the extent that he is con ...

, the grandson of

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as described in the

Harivamsa The ''Harivamsa'' ( , literally "the genealogy of Hari") is an important work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,374 shlokas, mostly in the '' anustubh'' metre. The text is also known as the ''Harivamsa Purana.'' This text is believed to ...

& a ''Gudhartha-dipika'', a commentary on the 11th century

Tantrika Tantra (; sa, तन्त्र, lit=loom, weave, warp) are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term ''tantra'', in the Indian t ...

manual named Sharadatilaka Tantra.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vagisa, Pitambara Sidhanta Kamrupi writers 15th-century Indian writers 16th-century Indian writers 1455 births 1533 deaths Writers from Assam

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