Sri Narayana Tirtha on Clubhouse

Description

Sri Narayana Tirtha was born at Kaza in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh but was `drawn’ to Bhupatirajapuram near Thanjavur, in Tamil Nadu, by a boar, on divine command. The boar that led him vanished into a temple of Lord Srinivasa and Tirtha settled down there obeying the directions he received in his dream. The place came to be known as ‘Varahur’ (after ‘Varaha’ the boar). Here, Sri Tirtha was cured of his chronic illness and wrote ‘Sri Krishna Leela Tharangini’, in which he narrated the story of Sri Krishna from birth up to his marriage with Rukmini. It is a literary masterpiece, composed in Yakshagana style with 12 Tarangams, consisting of 145 kirtans, 267 verses, 30 gadyams (prose passages) and 30 darus (narrative songs).