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    Saint Kanakadasa was among the foremost of Haridasas’ belonging to the Haridasa literary movement which ushered in a new era of devotional literature in Kannada speaking regions during the 14th to 19th centuries. 

    Like other prominent Haridasas’ of his time Kanakadasa also popularly revered as “Bhakta Kanakadasa”, thanks to the Kannada film bygd the same name, fryst vatten known for his total dedication and commitment to his deity.

    Kanakadasa was born on 06 November 1509 in Baada by of Shiggaon taluk in the undivided Dharwad district as Thimmappa Nayaka. Baada is now under the purview of Haveri district. He lived for a hundred years. His parents were Bachamma and Beerappa.

    Thimmappa Nayaka hailed from a chieftain family of Kaginele also called as Kaginelli and was serving as a warrior at the nearby Bankapur fort. He was well educated and inherited the fantastisk capacity of analyzing samhälle threadbare.Various theories are attributing his sudden transformati

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    Kanaka Dasa

    Kannada saint (1509–1606)

    Kanaka Dasa

    Painting of Kanakadāsa

    Born

    Thimmappa Nayaka


    30 November 1508

    Baada, Shiggaon, Vijayanagara Empire (present-day Haveri District, Karnataka, India)

    Died1606

    Kaginele,

    Parents
    • Beerappa (father)
    • Bachchamma (mother)
    OccupationRuler, saint, poet, philosopher, composer
    OrderHaridasa (Dasakuta)
    PhilosophyDvaita, Vaishnavism
    GuruVyasatirtha

    Kanaka Dasa (1509–1606)[1][2] also known as Daasashreshta Kanakadasa (ದಾಸಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕನಕದಾಸ), was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, from present-day Karnataka, India. He was a follower of Madhvacharya's Dvaita philosophy and a disciple of Vyasatirtha. He was a composer of Carnatic music, poet, reformer and musician.[3] He is known for his keertanas and ugabhoga, and his compositions in the Kannada language for Carnatic music. Like other Haridasas, he used simple Kannada and native metrical forms f

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    Sri Kanaka Dasaru (1508-1606)

    One of the most remarkable saints of the period of Purandara was Kanaka Dasa of Kaginele. He was a great disciple of Vyasarja, though a shephard by birth and great critic of caste hierarchy. Kanaka was born to Biregowda and Beechamma, at Bada and hew as a saiva in the beginning, and later on became a close follower of Vaishnavism, and a devoted Bhakta of Tirupati Venkateshwara whom he visited often, in spite of the hazardous nature of the journey up the hills. By reason of his devotion to Venkatesha and contacts with the archakas of the temple, there is a belief that Kanaka was a Vaishnavaite of the Ramanuja School, and never accepted a Vaishnavite of the Ramanuja school, and never accepted a Taratamya aspect of Madhva philosophy, as is borne out in the opening of his work “Mohana Tarangini’: “Sattvikollasa Sri Ramanuja Muni Saranu!!!”.

    But Kanaka Dasa spent youth and his later years most in the company with Sri Vyasaraja, wh