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this than had all the major features of a sattra central kirtanghar sari hati etc 46 whereas many others assert that these features did not exist during sankardev s time 47 48 this than was abandoned and more than a hundred years later in the middle of the 17th century sankardev s granddaughter in law kanaklata established it again 49 literary works in the baro bhuyan territories edit non bhagavata group harishcandra upakhyana bhakti pradip kirtan ghosa uresa varnana non bhagavata mixed with bhagavata elements not influenced by sridhara swami rukmini harana kavya lyrics borgeet bhagavata tales not from book x ajamilopakhyan book vi amrta manthan book viii kirtan ghosa ajamilopakhyan prahlada caritra harmohana sections ii vi 50 51 ahom kingdom edit gangmau edit biswa singha began his activities to remove the bhuyans from power in the western part of the brahmaputra valley in 1509 furthermore the bhuyans in the bordowa area picked up a quarrel with their kachari neighbours and when attacked sankardev advised the bhuyans to move which brought to an end the independence of this group of bhuyans 52 sankardev and his associates first crossed the brahmaputra river in 1516 17 and settled first at singari and finally at routa and when viswa singha advanced towards routa sankardev moved to gangmau in the ahom kingdom in 1527 after the fall of chutia kingdom 52 a at gangmau they stayed for five years where sankardev s eldest son ramananda was born at gangmau he wrote the drama patniprasad he lived alone at a place named gajalasuti out of dissatisfaction with some relative he penned the play there dhuwahat edit while at gangmau the koch king biswa singha attacked the ahoms the bhuyans fought for the ahoms and the koch king was defeated due to the unsettled situation at gangmau shankardeva next moved to dhuwahat near ahatguri in present day majuli washed away by the brahmaputra in 1913 the bhuyans were settled here by the ahoms with land and estate 54 hari sankardev s son in law became a saikia and his cousin jagatananda grandson of j received a title ramarai 55 at dhuwahat he met his spiritual successor madhavdev madhavdev a sakta got into a religious altercation with his brother in law ramadas who had recently converted to vaishnavism ramadas took him to sankardev who after a long debate convinced him of the power and the efficacy of ekasarana the acquisition of madhavdev with his talent in poetry singing and dedication to his new found religion and guru was a significant event in the ekasarana history at dhuwahat he managed to attract wider attention and popularity and he initiated many others into his religion the popularity of ekasarana and the conversion of people alarmed the priestly brahmins 56 who reacted with anger and hostility sankardev tried to diffuse their hostility by meeting with them at the house of his relative budha khan 57 and asking his brahmin antagonists to install a wooden idol of jagannath called madan mohan at his religious seat sankardev left this idol hanging on a tree when he took flight from dhuwahat and it was rescued years later by vamshigopaldev and installed at deberapar sattra 58 59 the brahmins finally complained to the ahom king suhungmung 1497 1539 who summoned sankardev to his court for a debate with them sankardev was able to convince the king that he was not a religious rebel and a threat to the social order and the charges against him were dropped 57 the hostility nevertheless continued 60 flight from dhuwahat edit though the positions of the bhuyans in the ahom kingdom began comfortably with sankardev s son in law hari becoming a paik officer and ramrai his cousin becoming a royal official the relationship gradually deteriorated after the death of viswasingha who was inimical to the bhuyans and the rise of naranarayan 1540 the koch bhuyan relationship improved somewhat 61 sometime in the 1540s during the reign of suklenmung 1539 1552 a royal officer visited the region for an elephant capturing expedition hari did not make himself available and an elephant escaped through a barrier managed by the bhuyans the officer took grave offence at this dereliction of duty and arrested hari as well as madhavdev at garhgaon hari was executed and madhavdev interned for about a year 62 according to daityari taking advantage of the koch advance against the ahoms 1546 1547 sankardev and his followers escaped from the ahom kingdom as they fell behind the vanguard of the koch army setting up their garrison in narayanpur further to the east 63 literary works in the ahom kingdom edit arguments against those antagonistic to bhakti kirtan ghosa pasanda mardana namaparadha vipra patni prasad ankia naat tales from krishna s early life kirtan ghosa sisu lila rasa krida kamsavadha gopi uddhava samvada kujir vancha purana akrurar vancha purana borgeets koch kingdom edit sunpora edit sankardev and his followers reached kapalabari in the koch kingdom in the later part of 1540 and put up there but the water was very alkaline there several members including madhavdev s mother manorama died there so after staying for some time at kapalabari sankardev and his group moved to sunpora in 1541 64 at sunpora sankardev initiated bhavananda a rich trader who had extensive business interests in the garo hills and bhutan hills besides kamarupa the trader narayana das settled at janiya near barpeta and took to agriculture a man of the world otherwise he soon flourished and became a provider to sankardev and his devotees he came to be known popularly as thakur ata patbausi edit after moving around sankardev settled at patbausi near barpeta in the koch kingdom and constructed a kirtanghar house of prayer some of the people he initiated here are chakrapani dwija and sarvabhaum bhattacharya brahmins govinda a garo jayaram a bhutia madhai a jaintia jatiram an ascetic and murari a koch damodardev a brahmin was initiated by sankardev damodardev was entrusted by sankardev to initiate brahmin disciples a sattra was also constructed for him at patbausi itself later r damodardev became the founder of the brahma sanghati sect of sankardev s religion among sankardev s literary works he completed his rendering of the bhagavata purana and wrote other independent works he continued composing the kirtan ghosha further translated the first canto of the ramayana adi kanda and instructed madhavdev to translate the last canto uttara kanda portions that were left undone by the 14th century poet madhav kandali he wrote four plays rukmini harana parijata harana keligopala and kalidamana another play written at patbausi kansa vadha is lost at patbausi he had lent his bargeets numbering around 240 to kamala gayan but unfortunately gayan s house was gutted and most of the bargeets were lost since that incident sankardev stopped composing bargeets of the 240 34 remain today second pilgrimage edit sankardev once again left for a pilgrimage in 1550 with a large party of 117 disciples that included madhavdev ramrai ramaram thakur ata and others thakur ata had to return after just one day s journey madhavdev had to take the entire responsibility of logistics he on the request of sankardev s wife kalindi urged him to return from puri and not proceed to vrindavana sankardev and the group returned to patbausi within six months in 1551 koch capital and bheladanga edit on receiving repeated complaints that sankardev was corrupting the minds of the people by spreading a new religion nara narayan the koch king ordered sankardev s arrest and sankardev went into hiding 65 chilarai the general of the koch army half brother of the king and married to kamalapriya the daughter of sankardev s cousin ramarai then convinced the king to give sankardev a hearing instead 66 for the audience with nara narayan as he moved up the steps to the court sankardev sang his sanskrit totaka hymn composed extempore to lord krishna madhu daanava daarana deva varam and as he sat down he sang a borgeet narayana kahe bhakati karu tera playing on the name of the king at the debate with the court pundits that followed sankardev was able to refute all allegations against him the king declared him free and honoured him with a seat close to the throne sankardev began to attend naranarayana s court regularly and received the freedom to propagate his teachings chilarai was instrumental in keeping sankardev safe and supporting his work many of sankardev s literary and dramatic works were completed in his domain with his patronage and protection sankardev acknowledged his appreciation in his play ram vijaya sankardev shuttled between koch behar the capital and patbausi his seat he was often hosted by chilarai and on his request agreed to have the images of the childhood days of krishna at vrindavan woven on cloth he engaged the weavers of tantikuchi near barpeta to weave a forty yard long tapestry panel sankaradeva provided the designs to be woven chose the various colours of thread to be used and supervised the weaving it took about a year to complete and deriving its name from its theme came to be known as the vrindavani vastra it was presented to chilarai and naranarayan a section of this cloth is preserved now in the victoria and albert museum in london chandsai a muslim tailor serving the koch king became a disciple of sankardev at kochbehar when sankardev returned to patbausi some time later chandsai too came with the saint sankardev frequented the capital for more than 20 years and enjoyed unstinted royal patronage for the first time end edit he made arrangements with madhavdev and thakur ata and gave them various instructions at patbausi and left the place for the last time he set up his home at bheladonga in kochbehar during his stay at kochbehar maharaja naranarayana expressed his wish to be initiated sankardev was reluctant to convert a king and declined to do so according to one of the biographers ramcharan thakur a painful boil a visha phohara had appeared in some part of his body and this led to the death of the saint thus in 1568 after leading a most eventful life dedicated to enlightening humanity the mahapurusha died after four months of his last stay at bheladonga aged 120 literary works in the koch kingdom edit bhagavata tales not from book x bali chalana book viii anadi patana book iii vamana purana bhagavata tales from books x xi xiii kirtan ghosa jarasandha yudha kalayavana badha mucukunda stuti syamanta haran naradar krishna darsan vipra putra anayana daivakir putra anayana veda stuti lilamala rukminir prem kalah bhrigu pariksha srikrishnar vaikuntha prayana chaturvimsati avatar varnana tatparya gunamala section i 67 renderings of bhagavata purana bhagavata x adi bhagavata xi with material from books i and iii bhagavata xii bhagavata i bhagavata ii bhagavata ix lost kurukshetra book x uttarardha nimi nava siddha samvada from ramayana ramayana uttara kanda lyrics borgeets totaya bhotima doctrinal treatise bhakti ratnakar drama ankia naat kali daman keli gopal rukmini haran parijat haran ram vijay visual art vrindavani vastra parts of this work are preserved in london timeline v t e birth c 1483 returns remarries initiates madhavdev leaves ahom realm death 1568 pilgrimage 1 north bank migration pilgrimage 2 bheladonga bordowa pilgrimage 1 bordowa gangmau dhuwahat patbausi susenphaa suhenphaa supimphaa suhungmung suklenmung sukhaamphaa chakradhwaj nilambar viswa singha naranarayan martin luther born meera bai born c 1498 tulsidas born c 1532 guru nanak died chaitanya born chaitanya died 1460 1470 1480 1490 1500 1510 1520 1530 1540 1550 1560 1570 ekasarana edit main article ekasarana dharma part of a series on vaishnavism supreme deity vishnu krishna rama important deities dashavatara matsya kurma varaha narasimha vamana parasurama rama balarama krishna buddha kalki other forms dhanvantari guruvayurappan hayagriva jagannath mohini nara narayana prithu shrinathji venkateswara vithoba ranganatha consorts lakshmi bhumi sita radha rukmini satyabhama alamelu related garuda hanuman shesha shasta holy scriptures vedas upanishads brahma sutras vaikhanasa pancharatra bhagavad gita mahabharata ramayana harivamsa divya prabandha gita govinda puranas vishnu bhagavata naradiya garuda padma agni sampradayas sri vishishtadvaita akshar purushottam darshan rudra śuddhādvaita kumara dvaitadvaita brahma tattvavada or dvaita acintyabhedabheda others ekasarana dharma mahanubhava pranami radha vallabha ramsnehi sant mat vaishnava sahajiya warkari teachers acharyas chaitanya chakradhara dadu dayal harivansh jayatirtha jiva goswami jñāneśvara kabir madhavdev madhvacharya manavala mamunigal namadeva nammalvar nathamuni nimbarka srinivasacharya padmanabha tirtha pillai lokacharya purandara dasa raghuttama tirtha raghavendra tirtha ram charan ramananda ramanuja ravidas satyanatha tirtha satyabhinava tirtha satyabodha tirtha satyadharma tirtha satyadhyana tirtha samarth ramdas sankardev swaminarayan sripadaraja tukaram tulsidas vallabha vedanta desika vidyapati vishnuswami viṭṭhalanātha vyasatirtha vadiraja tirtha yamunacharya sri kantha krishnamacharyulu annamacharya bhadrachala ramadasu related traditions bhagavatism vaikhanasas pancharatra tenkalai vadakalai munitraya krishnaism jagannathism haridasa sahajiya baul pushtimarg gaudiya iskcon ramanandi kapadi balmiki kabir panth dadu panth mahanam v t e sankardev preached devotion bhakti to krishna consisting primarily in the singing kirtan and listening to sravan of his deeds and activities ekasarana follows the dasya attitude bhava of worship in which the devotee considers himself to be a servant of god in contrast to other vaishnava schools radha is not worshiped along with krishna the people who practice his religion are referred to variously as mahapurushia sarania and sankari srimanta sankardev started a system of initiation sarana into his religion he caused a social revolution by fighting against the caste discrimination prevailing at that time he initiated people of all castes and religions including muslims after initiation the devotee is expected to adhere to the religious tenets of ekasarana consisting in worship to one god krishna and offering devotion to him forsaking all forms of vedic rites though he himself married twice had children and led the life of a householder his disciple madhavdev did not some of his followers today follow celibate life kevaliya bhakat in the vaishnavite monasteries the sattras sankardev s famous debate with madhavdev who was a staunch sakta devotee of shakti earlier and madhavdev s subsequent induction into ekasarana is often cited as the single most epoch making event in the history of the neo vaishnavite movement in assam madhavdev an equally multi talented person became his celebrated disciple literary works edit sankardev produced a large body of work though there were others before him who wrote in the language of the common man madhav kandali who translated the ramayana into 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