Madhava Kandali

Madhava Kandali
LanguageAssamese (Early form)
Period1400s
Notable worksSaptakanda Ramayana

Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (circa. 14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam. He is one of the renowned poets pertaining to the Pre-Shankara era. His Saptakanda Ramayana is considered the earliest translation of the Ramayana into an Indo-Aryan language, Assamese.[4] This work was carried out by the poet as early as the 14th Century. Another significant work of his is the narrative poem Devajit, which is about superiority of Krishna over the other avatars of Vishnu.[5] Kandali's patron was the Barāha King Mahamanikya (mid 14th century)[6] whose kingdom was located in the Kapili valley.[7] Kabiraja Madhava Kandali was said to be inhabitant of Lanka of Undivided Nagaon.[8]

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  4. ^ Kandali, Aditya Bihar; Routray, Aurobinda; Basu, Tapan Kumar (November 2008). "Emotion recognition from Assamese speeches using MFCC features and GMM classifier". TENCON 2008 - 2008 IEEE Region 10 Conference. IEEE. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1109/tencon.2008.4766487. ISBN 9781424424085. S2CID 39558655.
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  7. ^ Stone inscription of Barāha king Mahamanik of the mid 14th century
  8. ^ (Thakuria 2015:164) saka 1274 / 1352 A.D