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. A Contemporary Manuscript of the
Bhojana Kutuhala of Raghunatha
-
belonging to 艢膩mji Nayak Punde -
Between A. D. 1650 and 1685*
Recently I published some papers' on the life and works of
Raghunatha, the author of a work on dietetics called
the Bhojana-
Kut眉hala. As a result of my investigation I have been
able to
prove on contemporary evidence the following facts
about the
life-history and chronology of this Deccani
author :-
(1) The full name of this author was Raghunatha Ga峁噀艣a
Navahasta; (2) He was the Upadhyaya of the Chafal Matha of Saint
R膩mad膩sa between about A. D. 1648 and 1683; (3) He
was a
very intimate friend of Saint R盲mad膩sa as we find from a letter
addressed to him by this Saint; (4) In A. D. 1683 he renounced
all his property in the Satara District in favour of his son
-
in-
law Bhairavabhat and then proceeded on a mah膩y膩tr膩 or pil-
grimage; (5) He later migrated to Tanjore and composed some
Sanskrit and Marathi works under the patronage of Queen D墨p膩-
bai the wife of Ekoji Bhosale, the brother of Shivaji the Great,
between A. D. 1683 and 1712 or so; (6) During his stay in Mah膩-
ra峁ａ弓ra he was the pupil of Anantadeva, the author of the Smrti-
Kaustubha. Raghunatha's Bhojana-Kut眉hala was most probably
composed in Mah膩r膩峁ａ弓ra prior to his mah膩y膩tr膩 of A. D. 1683.
Since the publication of my papers my friend Rajavaidya
S. A. Jagtap of Kolhapur sent me a bundle of MSS of Raghu-
natha's Bhojana-Kut眉hala. These MSS may be briefly described
* Journal of the University of Bombay, (N. S.) Vol. XIII, Pt. 2,
pp. 40-45.
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1. Vide pp. 132-140 of the Journal of the University of Bombay,
Vol. X (New Series), Part 2, 1941-"Raghunatha, A Prot茅g茅 of
Queen Dip膩b膩i, etc., and pp. 254-263 of Annals (B. O. R. I.), Vol.
My
XXII, 1942" A Topical Analysis of Bhojana-Kut眉hala, etc.
paper on "Identification of Raghunatha ... and his contact with Saint
Ramadasa between A.D. 1648 and 1682" has appeared
in the Journal
of the Tanjore Mss Library, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
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