Religion:Vyasakuta
Vyasakuta (ವ್ಯಾಸಕೂಟ; IAST: Vyāsakūṭa) was one of two divisions, the other being the Dasakuta, traditionally recognised among the Haridasas of Karnataka.[1] The Haridasas belonged to the devotional world of Dvaita Vedanta associated with Madhvacharya and worshipped Hari (Vishnu). In this tradition, the Vyasakuta were the learned exponents of Vedanta, expected to be conversant with the Vedas, Upanishads and other darshanas, whereas the Dasakuta carried the same religious teaching to a wider public chiefly through devotional composition in Kannada.[2]
History
The intellectual background of the movement lay in Madhvacharya's thirteenth-century Dvaita tradition, but the Haridasa movement flourished particularly under the Vijayanagara Empire, founded in South India in the fourteenth century.[2] By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the distinction between learned Vyasakuta scholars and the vernacular devotional world of the Dasakuta had become more visible. Sripadaraja, Vyasatirtha and Vadiraja Tirtha are named among the Vyasakuta scholars, while Purandara Dasa, Vijaya Dasa, Gopala Dasa and Jagannatha Dasa are associated with the Dasakuta.[2]
Vyasatirtha gave this scholarly current particular prominence. A major Dvaita philosopher and monastic leader, he was closely connected with the sixteenth-century Vijayanagara court, including that of Krishnadevaraya, while also standing within the Haridasa devotional milieu.[3]
The distinction was not absolute. Although the Vyasakuta were identified with Sanskrit learning and philosophical exposition, leading figures of the group also composed in Kannada. Sripadaraja wrote kritis, ugabhogas and suladis; Vyasatirtha composed padas, suladis and ugabhogas; and Vadiraja likewise combined Sanskrit scholarship with Kannada literary and musical composition.[2] The two currents are therefore better understood as different emphases within the same Madhva-Haridasa tradition rather than as separate denominations.
References
- ↑ "What is the meaning of Vysakoota & Dasakoota". dvaita.org. http://www.dvaita.org/haridasa/overview/vdkuta.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Rao, Arati (2023). "Suḷādi Songs of Haridāsa Composers". Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia 1. https://southasia.iftawm.org/volumes/volume1/rao/. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
- ↑ Stoker, Valerie (2016). Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-29183-6.
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