Sri Annamacharya Swami was born in born in 1408 A.D, in a village in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh. From a young age , he displayed extrodinary talent in poetry and music.He used simple vocabulary, common everyday language, to convey the truth engraved in the ancient scriptures.
Although Annamacharya composed krithis in praise of many archamuthis of Srimannarayana , the Lord of his heart was Sri Venkateswara.Traditional story says that he once ran away to Tirupati and fell asleep on a rock after an exhausting climb of the first steep hill at Tirumala.There he dreamt of Sri Padmavati Thayar ,The Consort of Sri Venkateswara and and composed a Shataka in her praise.
Upon reaching the lord's abode atop the hill Annamacharya burst out in ecstatic praise of the lord's ananta kalyana gunas. Sri Annamacharya undertook an oath to compose one krithi everyday of his life in praise of Lord Srinivasa. As a result, he composed 32,000 krithis most of which are in praise of the Lord of Venkateswara. Of this 32,000 compositions only 14,000 are available to us today.
Annamacharya wrote the sankirtanas on palm leaves and later his son Tirumalacharya got them engraved on copper plates. But for reasons not known, most of these copper plates lay hidden in a rock built cell opposite to Hundi in the Tirumala temple unnoticed for over 400 years.
In 1922, twenty five hundred copper plates, comprising of about 14,000 sankirtanas and a few other works, were found in a rock built cell, later named as Sankirtana Bhandagaram, opposite to the Hundi (donation box).
Ever since the discovery of this lost treasure, Devasom board and other organizations in India are working hard to promote the music and literature of Annamacharya. Annamacharya is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Venkateswara’s Nandaka or Sword. ( The one who was born from Sword of Lord Himself)
Although Annamacharya composed krithis in praise of many archamuthis of Srimannarayana , the Lord of his heart was Sri Venkateswara.Traditional story says that he once ran away to Tirupati and fell asleep on a rock after an exhausting climb of the first steep hill at Tirumala.There he dreamt of Sri Padmavati Thayar ,The Consort of Sri Venkateswara and and composed a Shataka in her praise.
Upon reaching the lord's abode atop the hill Annamacharya burst out in ecstatic praise of the lord's ananta kalyana gunas. Sri Annamacharya undertook an oath to compose one krithi everyday of his life in praise of Lord Srinivasa. As a result, he composed 32,000 krithis most of which are in praise of the Lord of Venkateswara. Of this 32,000 compositions only 14,000 are available to us today.
Annamacharya wrote the sankirtanas on palm leaves and later his son Tirumalacharya got them engraved on copper plates. But for reasons not known, most of these copper plates lay hidden in a rock built cell opposite to Hundi in the Tirumala temple unnoticed for over 400 years.
In 1922, twenty five hundred copper plates, comprising of about 14,000 sankirtanas and a few other works, were found in a rock built cell, later named as Sankirtana Bhandagaram, opposite to the Hundi (donation box).
Ever since the discovery of this lost treasure, Devasom board and other organizations in India are working hard to promote the music and literature of Annamacharya. Annamacharya is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Venkateswara’s Nandaka or Sword. ( The one who was born from Sword of Lord Himself)
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