MANKUTIMMANA KAGGA ARTHA MANUAL

He is described as a poet, philosopher, social worker, journalist, politician and a philanthropist. This work has retained the lyrical quality, the ingrained message and the character of the original Kannada version although some compromises are inevitable in a complicated translation of this nature.ДVG himself was a great thinker and a multi-faceted personality. My favorite translation of Kagga has been вЂњTHUS SANG MANKUTHIMMAвЂќ by Sri.A.Narasimha Bhat of Kasargod. The most-quoted verses (apart from those of Sarvajna and Basavanna) by everybody in any speech or writing are from Mankuthimmana Kagga! Kagga has also been translated into English, a stupendous task considering the complicated hybrid words coined by Dr.DVG.

The simplicity of the last line in each verse carrying an intrinsic moral message while enshrining the essence of the whole verse makes every verse a treasure-trove of wisdom. The charm of these four-lined verses lies in the vastness of insight and understanding of the God, universe, world, life, humans and their materialistic compulsions, morality etc. It just so happened that out of the numerous verses that Dr.DVG had penned, these 945 stanzas were selected by Dr.DVG for publication. Sri.Ramaswamy stated that the number had no significance. I asked Dr.DVGвЂ™s pupil, Sri.S.R.Ramaswamy (who is now managing the functioning of Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs which was set up by Dr.DVG himself) as to why Kagga contained only 945 verses вЂ“ neither more nor less. Interestingly, Dr.DVG has dedicated Kagga to his close friends вЂ“ Sri.T.S.Venkannaiah ( to ) and Sri.Mokshagundam Krishna Murthy ( to ).

MANKUTIMMANA KAGGA ARTHA MANUAL

Srikanth has written a well researched reference manual called вЂњMankuthimmana Kagga - ThaatparyaвЂќ with foreword by Sri.Nittur Srinivas Rao. Lakshminarayana Bhatta has written a unique treatise titled вЂњThimmaguru DarshanaвЂќ (or Gundopanishat). Lakshminarayana Bhatta, Dr.Gururaj Karajagi and many more. Some scholarly commentaries include the ones by Shataavadhaani Dr.R.Ganesh, Chinmaya Mission, Prof.H.S. Kagga has seen numerous re-prints, the maximum for any literary work in Kannada! There are numerous commentaries (in writing and as lecture series) on Kagga by learned men. Kagga was written in verse form over a period of several years and finally published in 1943. Mankuthimmana Kagga is a collection of 945 four-liner verses of profound intellectual content written by Dr.DVG. Dr.DVGвЂ™s Kagga has mesmerized, humbled and inspired millions over the decades of itвЂ™s benevolent existence. I could only appreciate RaghuвЂ™s interest in this literary master-piece acclaimed as вЂњthe modern Bhagavad GeetaвЂќ penned by the great Kannada poet вЂњthe Kannada GeetacharyaвЂќ, Dr.D.V.Gundappa ( to ). Recently, my friend Dr.S.Raghunath, a professor in BMSCE, said that he planned to spend the next two or three years in studying Dr.DVGвЂ™s вЂњMankuthimmana KaggaвЂќ.

Mankutimmana kagga artha