Malliya Rechana

Malliya Rechana

Malliya Rechana was a Telugu language poet and writer, who lived in present-day Vemulawada,Telangana region of India who has written the first Telugu prosody (chandassu) book called Kavijanasrayam which is dated between 940 AD and 950 AD.

Malliya Rechana - First Telugu Author (940AD)[1] - P. V. Parabrahma Sastry asserted by Kendra Sahitya Academy.[2][3]

The most antique reference to Malliya Rechana is 11th century Tamil literature 'Yaappirungulam Kaarikai' mentioning the Kavi 'Renchi kouyaaruseyida vaduga chandamu'.[4]

"For the well being of the stainless rules of (Peosy) the sweet poet Mallia Recan(Worthy of the favour of bolds) hath composed in the Telugu language this admirable prosody entitled the Refuge Of Poets -" C.P. Brown [5]

Early life

Malliya Rechana was a Jain Komati from a place near Vemulawada,Karimnagar district of Telangana. Rechana was born to father "Bhima" and mother "Mallama".[3]

Vemulawada was the seat of Jain literature.The book Kavijanasrayam establishes the contributions of Jain Literature to Telugu. Chalukyas of Vemulavada, the local rulers, were great patrons of Kannada Jain literature. Along with Kannada, we could see that an attempt was made in the same direction for Telugu Jain literature.

The claim that he is associated with the Rashtrakuta vassals of Kannada origin Eastern Chalukyas[6][7] has no ground.Jainism as a religion existed but there was no evidence of development of Jain literature in the region during the time frame. This is confirmed by Jayanthi Ramayya Panthulu in 1932[8] and P.V.P Sastry in 1992 [1]who are natives of Eastern Chalukya region.

P.V.P Sastry also mentions that 'Many Jain works got destroyed'[1]

Contemporaries

Malliya Rechana,Pampa,Jina Vallabha,Somadeva Suri are considered contemporaries.[1]

Malliya Rechana's guru is Vaadindra Chudamani. Pampa's guru is Jinendrudu.Rechana refers to "Madanavilasa", "Vachakabharana", "Jinendra" which are all associated to the inscriptions of Vemulawada, Telangana.

Literary career

He wrote the first Telugu prosody (chandassu) book called Kavijanasrayam[9][10]

"Nannaya’s Mahabharata shows highly developed technique of Telugu. It presupposes fairly long period of development.Even earlier to Rannaya there may have been Telugu works but which are not extant today. Very recently,P.V.P. Sastry J is of the opinion that Malliya Rechana's Kavi Janasrayamu now dated to 12th Gent. A.D. shows archaic Telugu language and it must be dated to Ce.950-980 A.D. He points out that Malliya Rechana in the work refers to one Vachakabharana who helped him to write the work. Vachakabharana as pointed by P.V.P.Sastry is none other than Jinavallabha, brother of Pampa, of Kurikyala inscription datable to C.950 A.D. Hence, in his opinion Malliya Rechana' s Kavi Janasrayamu is datable to G.950 A.d. not to 13th Cent. A.D. If his suggestion is accepted, then it is likely that Telugu literary activities also started simultaneously with Kannada literature."[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Chimakurthi, Seshagiri Rao (1992). Telugu Marugul. Telugu Gosti. pp. 87–92.
  2. ↑ Datta, Amaresh (2003). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Sahitya Academy.
  3. 1 2 "Kavi Janaasrayamu (Toli Telugu Grandhamu)". www.telugubooks.in.
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.333847 Page 21
  5. ↑ Mungili,2009
  6. ↑ Indian Antiquary. Popular Prakashan. 1902.
  7. ↑ Association, Madras Library (1939). Publication Series. Madras Library Association.
  8. ↑ Jayanthi Ramaiah (1932). Kavijanaashrayamu-Chandashastramu. SRI KRISHNA DEVARAYANDRA BHASHA NILAYAM, HYD PAR INFORMATICS. ANDHRA SAHITYA PARISHATH.
  9. ↑ Malliya Rechana (7 July 2017). "Kavi Janasramamu" – via Internet Archive.
  10. ↑ Samagrandhra Sahitya Charitra , Arudra
  11. ↑ http://hdl.handle.net/10603/100276
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