Melkote Ramapriyan
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• December 13, 2000
Friends, The account of Ramanuja at Thirunarayanapuram/Melkote given in Guruparampara prabhavam (GPP) states that Ramanuja recovered the utsavamurthy Ramapriya from a muslim (turushka) king at Delhi. This is also the "pop" version I have heard. The problem is that there seems to be no muslim king at delhi before 1190, whereas Ramanuja is supposed to have lived from 1017--1137. Secondly, assuming that Ramapriya was in delhi/north because he was taken there by some muslim raid of Melkote, we seem to have another problem: the earliest muslim raids of Karnataka happen much later (Malik kafur?). How is this resolved? Are there independent accounts from Melkote? I am not in favour of a searching historical critique of works like GPP but this appears to be a major anachronism. But perhaps someone could shed some light? -Kasturi -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Search archives at http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/index.html#SEARCH
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