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The ''Raghunāthābhyudayam'' (or ''Raghunāthā-bhyudayam'', ''Raghunāthābhyudaya'', ''Ragunatha Abhyudaya'') by Rāmabhadrāmbā, one of the wives of the Thanjavur Nayak king Raghunatha Nayak (r. 1600-34), is a Sanskrit ''mahākāvya'' in twelve cantos. It was designed to valorise Raghunatha, situating his career as a type of the life of Rāma-Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa.〔Davesh Soneji, ''Performing Satyabhimi: Text, Context, Memory and Mimesis in Telugu-Speaking South India'' (unpublished PhD thesis, McGill University 2004), p. 53.〕 The first few cantos of the poem invoke Raghunatha, seeking his patronage and assistance, and praise his generosity, piety, and intellect. Canto 4 presents Raghunatha's ancestry and the subsequent cantos discuss his early life and military successes. He succeeds his father Achuthappa Nayak in canto 8 and continues with his military exploits. The last two cantos focus on the cultural activities and artistic achievements of his court, with a colophon in which Rāmabhadrāmbā emphasises her own merits. The poem was first brought to scholarly attention by S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar in 1919, after he found it in November 1916.〔Rāmabhadrāmbā, 'Raghunāthābhyudayam', in ''Sources of Vijayanagar History (Selected and Edited for the University)'', ed. by S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (A. Rangaswami Sarasvati ), The Madras University Historical Series, 1 (Madras: University of Madras, 1919), pp. 284-302 (91 ) (p. 284), https://archive.org/details/sourcesofvijayan00krisrich.〕 The poem was fiercely criticised by an early reviewer of the first scholarly edition, who claimed that Rāmabhadrāmbā 'had thoroughly assimilated the art of composing a poem of surpassing tediousness and consisting of the most abject flattery of her royal patron' and who did not think the poem would have any interest to historians,〔J. C., review of ''Raghunāthābhyudaya of Rāmabhadrāmbā (A Historical Poem)''. Edited by T. R. Chintamani. (Bulletins of the Sanskrit Department, No. 2.) pp. viii + 78. University of Madras, 1934. ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'', 7 (1935), 961-62, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00086377〕 it has since been identified as a significant source for the cultural history of seventeenth-century south India.〔Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman, 'History, Biography and Poetry at the Tanjavur Nayaka Court', ''Social Analysis'' 25 (1989), 115–130.〕 Rāmabhadrāmbā's ''Raghunāthābhyudayam'' is not to be confused with the identically named Telugu poems the ''Raghunāthābhyudayam'' and the similarly named ''Raghunāthanāyakabhyudayamu'', both composed by Raghunatha eldest son and successor, Vijayarāghava Nāyaka.〔''Raghunāthanāyakābhyudayamu and Raghunāthābhyudayamu'', ed. by N. Venkataramanayya and M. Somasekhara Sarma, Madras: Government Oriental Series, 49/Tanjore Saraswathi Mahal Series, 32 (Madras, 1951).〕 ==Editions and translations== * Rāmabhadrāmbā, 'Raghunāthābhyudayam', in ''Sources of Vijayanagar History (Selected and Edited for the University)'', ed. by S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar (A. Rangaswami Sarasvati ), The Madras University Historical Series, 1 (Madras: University of Madras, 1919), pp. 284–302 (91 ), https://archive.org/details/sourcesofvijayan00krisrich. (edition and translation. ) * ''Raghunāthābhyudayamahākāvyam: Rāmabhadrāmbāviracitam'', ed. by Ti. Rā. Cintāmaṇiḥ, Bulletins of the Sanskrit Department, University of Madras, 2 ((): Madrapurīyaviśvavidyālayaḥ, 1934) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raghunathabhyudayam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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