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Samarpungava Dixit, a celebrated Sanskrit poet and a renowned travel-writer, was born in 1574 AD at a place caleed Vatvan in Tamilnadu. 1
His father was Shri vyenkatesh Annamma,2 a reputed scholar of Tamil and Sanskrit literature both, and a well versed writer belonging to Tailang Atreya gotra Brahmans in Taittiriya Apastamba of Krishna-Yajurveda mantriks 3 . His mother’s name was Ananamma 4 who was the sister of Appayya Dikshitar 5 written evidences available indicate that Samarpungava had finally left his ancestral home-state in his adulthood and settled in Kashi, where he died.
Research regarding the birthplace of Samarpungava Dikshit is advantageous because according to another note found regarding his birthplace- “Samarpungava Diksita, who was the son of Venkatesa of Vadhul Gotra (and brother of Suryanarayana and Dharma Diksita), at Thiruvalangadu in North Arcot District, Madras, about the 17th century. His 'Tirthyatra-Prabandham' describes the holiness of several sacred shrines and waters visited in the course of a pilgrimage. " research is necessary on this matter, Whether his birthplace is 'Vatavan' (?) in Tiruvalangadu (present Tamil Nadu state) or some other place If the village Tiruvalangadu is the birthplace of Samarpungav, it is located in the western suburbs of Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Its railway station is on the Chennai-Arakkonam rail route, which is the last station just before Arakkonam. The most famous temple here is that of Sri Vadaranyeswarar Mahadeva located at a distance of 5 km from the Railway station. Thiruvalangadu is also accessible from National Highway 205.
By this logic, if Samarpungav Dixita was the son of Venkatesh and brother of Suryanarayan and Dharma Dixit, then why the names of his brothers not mentioned anywhere in 'North-Indian Andhra-Tailanga-Bhatt-Vanshvriksha' (1950 : Vidya-Vibhag, Nathdwara)? Why did his own name also not appear in the lineage of Vadhul gotra? Was Samarpungav ji's gotra Vadhulas or Atreya? At the end of 'Yatra Prabandh:' Champu-Kavya, he writes himself as a member of Vadhulas Gotra in these words –
Is it possible that Samarpungava Dikshita may have been adopted from Vadhul gotra to Atreya-dynasty by vyenkatesh Annamma or his father, but further research shall reveal the real facts. The information published in the genealogy prepared by learned Kantamani Shastri does not help in understanding If Samarpungav's gotra changed due to adoption and he became Aatreya from Vadhulas, then where is the necessary entry the Tailang-Genealogy?
According to a description contained North-Indian Andhra-Tailang-Bhatt-Vansha Vriksha (1950: Vidya vibhag, Nathdwara) in the Atreya gotra of Tailang Brahmins, the followers of the Taittiriya Apastamba of Krishna-Yajurveda was Sri Venkatesh Annamma, in whose second generation his son Sri Dixit was born in 1574 AD.
Whether his birthplace is in Thiruvalangadu (present-day Tamil Nadu state) or some other palace - is a matter of research, but it is a fact that he had settled in Kashi in his later years! There is also another note regarding his birthplace according to which - SAMARPUNGAVA Diksita who was the son of Venkatesa of Vadhul gotra and brother of Suryanarayana and Dharma, at Tiruvalngadu in North Arcot District, Madras, about the 17th century. His 'Tirthyatra-prabandham' describes the holiness of several sacred shrines and waters visited in the course of a pilgrimage."
But it is worth considering that in many other places including the above mentioned Tailang family tree, why the names of the brothers of Samarpungav : Suryanarayan Dixit and Dharma Dixit are not mentioned - even if they were not their real brothers, they would have been mentioned somewhere in the Tailang-linage? Apart from Goswami Harikrishna Sastri's poem 'Vansha-prashasti', some other sources have also mentioned that the origin of ancestors of Samarpungav, was Shivakanchi / Panampatta, located on the banks of the river Penna, is today's Tamlnadu. On the basis of what information he is said to be a resident of Tiruvalangadu village in Arcot district, north of the Chennai metropolis? Which of the two is correct? It is also surprising that there is no place called Panampatta in the whole of Tamil Nadu today: it is in present day Kerala state.
Is it possible that in the earlier times i.e. in the 17th century, Panampatta may have been the name of a locality or settlement of Sivakanchi ! The following introductory remarks published in relation to Samarpungav Dixit in the 'Sanskrit Kosh' (Editor: Dr. Rajvansh Sahay 'Heera') published in 1973 are observable – Shastrath-Visharad Srisamarpungav Dixit was the son (nephew) of eminent Ayyappa Dixit's sister who performed many classical/vedic yagyas including Rajasuya, Vajapeya, and Ashwamedha-yajna at the insistence of Srimantas and kings during his residence in South India. He was also a well-known expert of many yagya-karma-methods and a 'tourist-writer': he had seen all the main religious places of India mostly with his own eyes while walking! He described the main pilgrimages of North and South India in his 'Yatraprabandh' Champu-poetry, his capable pen went on the diversity of India's geography, flora and trees.... Gayatheertha, Sriparvat, Ahobal, Gandhamadan Parvat, Pandava Desh, Halaspur, Gokarna, Mathura, Kedarnath, Badarinath, Kamrup, Nilgiris, Jagannath, Prayag, Saket, and Varanasi, etc. had darshan of the gods and goddesses adorned in the places of worship and on them verses in 9 chapters have been written.... In this book there is a description of Ganga, Kaveri, Setu and Udyan while glorifying the cities and gods and goddesses, and also poetic depiction of the natural shades of sunset, sunrise, moonrise! 'Yatraprabandh' is his most famous and much-quoted Champu-poetry - that is, written in both poetry and prose genres! The first edition of this book was edited by Vasudev Laxman Shastri Panshikar in 1908 and published by Tukaram Jivaji! In the second edition of this book, which was published in 1936 from Nisan Sagar Press under the editing of Kedarnath Sharma, many places visited by him are described. The third edition was published in 1990 by Nishan Sagar Press, Mumbai.
Dr. Vishnulok Bihari Srivastava's comment about him in the 'Dictionary of Indology' is- "Teerthayātrā-Prabandha-Champu,by Samarapungava Dikshita, who belonged to the second half of the 16th century, is divided into 9 uchchhwās and deals with several pilgrimages of north and south India. ....The poet has represented a copious picture of nature at several places in his kavya. The poet seems to have excelled in presenting the geographical topography of India."
It is not accidental that this book is mentioned at many places in many Sanskrit texts written from time to time in South and North India. Not only because of being a disciple or real nephew of the great Appaya Dixit, but also because of being a perfect tourist-poet and author of his seminal treatise on Advaita Philosophy 'Advaita-Vidyatilakam'! A wonderful philosophical treatise written by this same Samarpungav Dixit is 'Advaita-Vidyatilakam', with the role of the famous scholar Gopinath 'Kaviraj', this book of philosophical interpretation of 'Brahmasutra' has been published in 1908 from Nisansagar Press in Bombay! Advaita-Vidyatilakam (the commentary on 'Darpan' by Sri Dharmayya Dixit) published in part from the Government Sanskrit Library, Kashi in 1930, is now fortunately accessible on the Internet as a 104 page e-book. There is a need for more deep research regarding the personality and works of Samarpungava!
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