Anandaturia (ca. 1112 - ca. 1173 ) is a Burmese poet and courtier who lived in the medieval Burmese state of Pagan .
There is practically no information about his life. According to legend, he held an important position as court counselor, but was accused of participating in a palace plot, arrested, and subsequently executed. According to the same legend, shortly before the execution, while in prison, he wrote the only well-known now-his philosophical elegiac poem Dammatadi, known in Russian translations under various names (“Extinguish anger” in BDT, “Law of Nature” in “Burmese literature "Popova," Death Song "in the" Short Literary Encyclopedia "). The king, who sent him to execution, was allegedly given to read this poem, and he, amazed at her, ordered to forgive the poet, but by that time he had already been executed.
In this poem, Anandaturia expresses its own views on the righteous life of a Buddhist, the nature of power and karmic laws. This poem was first published in the Maha Yazavindzhi (The Great Chronicle, 1733) at Qala. The poem is considered one of the earliest known verse texts in the Burmese language, but there are doubts both about the fact that it was written in the XII century (some scientists believe in the XIV), and about the veracity of the entire history of Anandaturia.
Bibliography
- G.P. Popov, Burmese literature, M., 1967.
- Friedrich V. Lustig. Burmese Classical Poems. U Khin Pe Gyi, 1966.