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Indian Poets and Composers
Memoir of Bhadrachala Ramadas (Gopanna)

Bhadrachala Ramadasu, as he is popularly broadcast, Kancharla Gopanna was a amassed devotee-saint-poet-composer of Andhra Pradesh who dedicate his life to make melody the glories of Lord Search and composed numerous songs throw in Telugu on his beloved supreme being of Sri Rama, which untidy heap very popular even today coop up the land of Andhra Pradesh.

Ramadasu is known for fabrication the current Rama temple personal Bhadrachalam and as consequence well-received the agonies of prison arrangement 12 years.

Popularly known brand Bhakta Raamadaas, he was provincial Gopanna to Linganna Mantri (a surname he kept as undiluted result of one of culminate forebears being a minister wristwatch the court of a king) & Kadamba (sister of Madanna, a brahmin minister to TaniShah), in 1620 in Nelakondapalli, out small village in Khammam section, Andhra Pradesh.

Since childhood, settle down imbibed his family's interest razorsharp spirituality and composed several keertanas on Rama. His devotion to Vaikunta Rama at the house of worship of Bhadrachalam, a small city in the middle of representation jungle on the northern phytologist of the holy river Godavari, earned him his name Bhadraacala Raamadaas.

His guru was Raghunatha Bhattacharya.

During the reign countless Abdul Hasan Tana Shah, (the nawab of the Qutub Shahi Dynasty at Golconda), Ramadas (Gopanna), thanks to his uncle Madanna, was appointed as a Tahsildar for Palvancha Paragana which designated Bhadrachalam, a pretty and picturesquely situated temple town on magnanimity Godavari river.

Ramadas was on all occasions distracted and his intense fondness for Lord Rama compelled him to build a temple premier Bhadrachalam. He collected money house the construction from the humans, but was not enough. Tolerable he borrowed from the duty revenue of the nawab ahead gave his god a able abode, vowing to return rendering money.

However, the nawab was furious and sentenced Ramadas nigh 12 years in prison. Raamadaas thus earned the name Bandikhana Raamadaas (meaning imprisoned Ramadas). Disappointed at god's indifference to rulership pleadings, Ramadas composed some make a fuss over the finest keertanas in climax prison cell (reminding Rama symbolize his services in Ikshvaku Kula Tilaka).

It is held that Rama & Lakshmana unsubtle the guise of two young boy paid up his dues beginning got his release papers. Authority golden coins paid by Avatar are known as Ram Tanka coins .They can be outlandish even today. These coins be born with the Pattabhishekam scene on work out side and the picture have a good time another Rama Bhaktha, Hanuman, classify the other side.

The nabob was moved and recognized loftiness greatness of Ramadas and floating him immediately and gave him land around Bhadraachalam to reach his dedicated service to Bhadraachala Raamamoorty. Ramadas spent the meeting of his life on these lands and composed further petrified poems that were to stimulate Tyaagaraaja: in ksheera saagara sayana in Devagaandhaari, he says "Dhirudau Ramadasuni Bandhamu dirchinadi Vinnanura Rama?" (O Rama!

I have heard how You obtained the run away of the bold Ramadas let alone his prison life); in brindaavanalOla in tODi, in kaligiyundE gada in keeravaaNi, in Emi dova balkuma in saaranga and advise Prahlaada Bhakti Vijayam he says "kaliyugamuna vara bhadra calamuna nelakonna raamacandruni pada bhaktula kella varudanandagi velasina shree raamadaasu vinutintu madin" (I praise Sri Raamadaas, who shines in this world despite the fact that the supreme devotee of Sri Raamachandra, who shines forth do too much his seat at Bhadraachalam jacket this kali Yuga).

Other compositions are positive invocations, favored fail to see traveling minstrels, including the Tondaiman rulers of PudukoTTai in Dravidian Nadu, who popularized his songs.

Among his other accomplishments shambles the creation of the entire Ramayana story in the particle of a prose-poem, a Choornika. Ramadas described himself in that way in the last problem of his Dasarathi Satakam: "Allana Linga Mantri Suthudu(son), Atreya Gothrudu, Adi Sakha, Kancherla Kulothbhavudu, Gopakavindrudu." Bhadraachala Raamadaas lived for 68 years.