Bammera Pothana
Hello everyone , a pleasant morning makes our day active and perfect.Coming to the topic today i want to discuss about a great poet Bammera pothana (1410-1510).A great devotee of lord rama and called as father of goddess saraswati devi. Pothana garu was wellknown for translating bhagavatam from sanskrit to telugu. We were proud to say that belonged to bammera village in jangaon district in telanagana state.bhagavata puranam was first written by veda vyasa maharshi who is a guru of all the vedas. Vyasa bhagawan wrote bhagavata puranam in sanskrit . In India everyone places vyasa maharshi as a guru in their hearts.In vishnu shasram there is a sloka :
vyasaya vishnu rupaya vyasa rupaya vishnave
namo vibrahma nidhayae vasistaya namo namaha
Bammera pothana was a telugu and sanskrit scholar.His Andhra maha bhagavatamu is called as pothana bhagavatamu in telugu. His father kesana and mother lakkamamba. pothana garu is a farmer and a great poet.In early age he wrote Bhogini dhandakam a poem wrote in praise of king sri singa bhoopala, and dedicated to him. secondly he wrote veerabhadhra vijayamu on lord veerabhadhra .First pothana garu is a devotee of lord shiva. There is no difference between lord shiva and lord vishnu as written in this padyam as "chetularanga shivuni pujimadeni noru novvanga hari keerthi salupadeeni dhayanu satyamulonuga thalupadeni kaluganetiki thallula kadupuchetu".As a devotee of lord shiva one early morning during lunar eclipse, pothana garu meditating on the banks of river godavari , lord rama had appeared as a king and asked him to translate bhagavatam from sanskrit to telugu language and dedicate to him.This makes him auspicious and translated sanskrit vyasa bhagawan bhagavatam to andhra maha bhagavatam. The king of Rachakonda named padma nayaka asked potana garu to dedicate andhra maha bhagavatamu to him.The king himself is a poet and wrote rudranavasudhakara, a well known sanskrit drama. Pothana garu regretted his request and said that it is better dedicated to lord rama than to these mortal kings and dedicated to supreme lord rama with great devotion. Karanata samrajyam(vijayanagara empire) was raiding rachakonda at that time.During his writing when he started first line of verse and stopped as he doesn't know how vaikuntham looks like. so he went to his farming and returned evening and shocked to see verse complete.
Pothana garu asked his daughter what happened who completed this verse.she replied that afternoon time you have sat and wrote here. Pothana garu understood that lord rama had came and completed the verse.That beautiful poem as pothana garu himself ascribed in the following poem:
Palikedidi bhagavatamata
Palikinchedi vadu ramabhadrundata ne
palikina bahavahara magunata
Palikeda verondu gadha palukaganela
After the completion of andhra maha bhagavatamu srinath kavi a poet came to pothana garu and asked about dedication to karanata samrajyam ,at night goddess saraswati devi had cried weather he dedicate to kings.But Pothana garu said to goddesss saraswati devi as a daughter that it will be dedicated to only supreme lord vishnu. An epic bhagavatam is to be done as a subject to the students of present generation as now a days no one knows bammera pothana garu, bhagawan vyasa maharshi .
Hello everyone , a pleasant morning makes our day active and perfect.Coming to the topic today i want to discuss about a great poet Bammera pothana (1410-1510).A great devotee of lord rama and called as father of goddess saraswati devi. Pothana garu was wellknown for translating bhagavatam from sanskrit to telugu. We were proud to say that belonged to bammera village in jangaon district in telanagana state.bhagavata puranam was first written by veda vyasa maharshi who is a guru of all the vedas. Vyasa bhagawan wrote bhagavata puranam in sanskrit . In India everyone places vyasa maharshi as a guru in their hearts.In vishnu shasram there is a sloka :
vyasaya vishnu rupaya vyasa rupaya vishnave
namo vibrahma nidhayae vasistaya namo namaha
Bammera pothana was a telugu and sanskrit scholar.His Andhra maha bhagavatamu is called as pothana bhagavatamu in telugu. His father kesana and mother lakkamamba. pothana garu is a farmer and a great poet.In early age he wrote Bhogini dhandakam a poem wrote in praise of king sri singa bhoopala, and dedicated to him. secondly he wrote veerabhadhra vijayamu on lord veerabhadhra .First pothana garu is a devotee of lord shiva. There is no difference between lord shiva and lord vishnu as written in this padyam as "chetularanga shivuni pujimadeni noru novvanga hari keerthi salupadeeni dhayanu satyamulonuga thalupadeni kaluganetiki thallula kadupuchetu".As a devotee of lord shiva one early morning during lunar eclipse, pothana garu meditating on the banks of river godavari , lord rama had appeared as a king and asked him to translate bhagavatam from sanskrit to telugu language and dedicate to him.This makes him auspicious and translated sanskrit vyasa bhagawan bhagavatam to andhra maha bhagavatam. The king of Rachakonda named padma nayaka asked potana garu to dedicate andhra maha bhagavatamu to him.The king himself is a poet and wrote rudranavasudhakara, a well known sanskrit drama. Pothana garu regretted his request and said that it is better dedicated to lord rama than to these mortal kings and dedicated to supreme lord rama with great devotion. Karanata samrajyam(vijayanagara empire) was raiding rachakonda at that time.During his writing when he started first line of verse and stopped as he doesn't know how vaikuntham looks like. so he went to his farming and returned evening and shocked to see verse complete.
Pothana garu asked his daughter what happened who completed this verse.she replied that afternoon time you have sat and wrote here. Pothana garu understood that lord rama had came and completed the verse.That beautiful poem as pothana garu himself ascribed in the following poem:
Palikedidi bhagavatamata
Palikinchedi vadu ramabhadrundata ne
palikina bahavahara magunata
Palikeda verondu gadha palukaganela
After the completion of andhra maha bhagavatamu srinath kavi a poet came to pothana garu and asked about dedication to karanata samrajyam ,at night goddess saraswati devi had cried weather he dedicate to kings.But Pothana garu said to goddesss saraswati devi as a daughter that it will be dedicated to only supreme lord vishnu. An epic bhagavatam is to be done as a subject to the students of present generation as now a days no one knows bammera pothana garu, bhagawan vyasa maharshi . 
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