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 Dr. Naga Phani Sarma is one of the most famous and best avadhanis in the country. He started avadhanam at the young age of 14 years and slowly gained fame and popularity. His has been a long journey from doing ashtavadhanam before the age of 14 to doing dvisahasravadhanam recently. Firstly, what is avadhanam? Explaining the meaning and origin of avadhanam Dr.Naga Phani Sarma said, "Avadhanam is concentration of mind and collection of thoughts in mind. In any era, to have a stable mind is the problem. The mind does not pay heed to caste, creed, religion, region etc. All living things have a mind but the human mind has its prominence because it can think, that is its power. And the human is constantly trying to make the mind stable. The problem is ekagrata-concentration. Hence the mind's ekagrata is avadhanam. The mind needs ekagrata goal and having ekagrata in various topics is avadhanam. Avadhanam in 8 topics is ashtavadhanam, 100 topics is shatavadhanam, 1000 topics is sahasravadhanam and 2000 topics is dvisahasravadhanam." And a person who can recollect on which page, which stanza, which paragraph a certain syllable appeared is called an avadhani. Naga Phani Sharma then explained the origins of how avadhanam gained popularity over the decades. "Earlier avadhanam existed in the Vedas. And the secret of the Vedas is shruti - of one generation passing it onto another just by listening and learning. Slowly this entered loukika sahityam - Common Literature, which have padyamulu, chandasu, kavyamu, rasamu, varnana and alankaramu (most commonly used parameters in literature) in poems. Poets like A Madabushi Venkatacharylu and later on Tirupati Venkata poets promoted this avadhanam and then avadhanam gained a lot of prominence and importance in Literature. Tirupati Venkata poets were very famous as avadhanis and heralded a new era in Andhra Pradesh." |
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