Dasopant (1551-1615) belonged to the
Datta sect. He was born in a
Deshastha Brahmin
Deshastha Brahmin is a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and northern area of the state of Karnataka. Other than these states, according to authors K. S. Singh, Gregory Naik and Pran Nath Chopra, Deshastha Br ...
family in the village of Narayan Peth. He was the son of Digambarpant, an official of Bidar's
Barid Shahi kingdom, responsible for collecting land revenue and handing it over to the rulers.
Dasopant wrote mainly in
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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, was a
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
scholar in which are some of his commentaries. He also composed songs in
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
,
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
and
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
. He is said to have written over 500,000 (5 lakh) couplets, only some of which have been published. He wrote two commentaries on the
Gita called '
''Gitarnava''
', and '
''Gitarthabodhachandrika''
' ('
''Gitartha Chandrika''
') which is a smaller commentary as compared to his previous book in which he follows the ''
Advaita Siddhanta'' school of thought.
Another book authored by him was the Grantharaja''
', which is considered a precursor of
Dasbodh
''Dāsbodh'', loosely meaning "advice to the disciple" in Marathi, is a 17th-century bhakti (devotion) and jnana (insight) spiritual text. It was orally narrated by the saint Samarth Ramdas to his disciple, Kalyan Swami. The ''Dāsbodh'' provid ...
. However, since most of his works lack significant literary qualities, only a small part of them have been published.
References
1551 births
1615 deaths
Marathi-language writers
Indian Sanskrit scholars
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