Shri Pranesha Dasaru Aradhana (Dasaru)

Shri Pranesha Dasaru

ArAdhane: AshvIja shukla saptami

Born : Lingasugur, Raichur Dist

gurugaLu: jagannAthadAsaru

pUrvAshrama Name: yOgIndra

Period : 1736 - 1822

Father: tirakappa kulkaraNi

Son: shri venkaTarAyaru (guru prANEsha viTTala dAsaru)

He was parAvaha marudAmsharu and was born as pAnDu rAjaru previously.

prANapati padadwandwa pankajAsakta mAnasam |

shamAdi guNa samyuktam shri prANEsha gurum bhaje ||

rAgappa, yOgIndra and subbaNNa were three sons of Tirakappa. rAgappa had lecoderma (White patches) all over the body when he was born. Tirakappa and his wife performed seva at manatralaya to sri Raghavendra. Raghappa’s white patches vanished except on his right foot. “Rayaru” in the swapna told Tirakappa that this patch would not go as it had come in Moola swaroopa. Hence they returned to their place. Second son was YogIndra. He learnt PARSI LANGUAGE as it was the official language of that region at that time. After some time Sri jagannAtha dAsaru had come to Lingasugur and came to Tirakappa's House. Seeing YogIndra said “He is a precious jewel’ by placing his hand on his head, rubbing gently his hair, gave Ankita” Sri Pranesha Vittala” and added him to his dAsa kUTa. YogIndra (Now Pranesha Vittala) left learning Parsi and went to harapanahaLLi to learn Sanskrit and madhwa shAstra under roTTi varadAchArya. He came to his native place and started his life in poverty writing pada, padya, etc. His brother rAghappa was his scribe. yOgIndra's duty was to take cattle, etc. to forest for their food and bring them back in the evening. This helped him in spending time in Sri hari vAyu and gurugaLa dhyAna, etc. He became VairagyashAli also. Sri Varadendra swamy of Manatralayam on his visit to Lingasugur stayed with Pranesha dAsaru. Pranesh dAsaru receiving him said “Hindina SukarmavEnu bandodaidavO Varadendra raaya banda namma mandirakkindu”. He offered Bhiksha. From him, Swamiji obtained as “dAnaM” a bunch of hay stack. The swamiji said that he would collect the hay whenever he required it and that it should be left there itself. In 1785, Vishwava Samvatsara AshADa shuddha ShasTi, Tuesday, Sri varadEndra tIrtharu attained Brindavanam at Pune. After some time, Sri Varadendra tIrtharu appeared in the swapna of Pranesha Vittala Dasaru said that he would come to Ligsuguru in the form of a Tulsi Plant below the Hay stack donated by him. For the consecration of his Brindavanam at that site,  his Padukas would arrive next day from Pune. When Pranesha Dasaru cleared the Hay stack he saw the Tulsi Plant. He got “Purusha Shile” from Gulaganji MoraDe near Lingasuguru and made arranagements for a Brindavanam and the Brindavanam was consecrated subsequently. The Brindavanam is being worshipped till now from the Vamshakaru of Sri pranesha vittala dasaru.

Pranesha dasaru was a scholar in Sanskrit. His works in Sanskrit are:

Tatwa Sankhyaana TippaNi

Bramha Sutra TippaNi

Tatwa PrakAsha TippaNi

Bruhatisahatra (1000 Veda ChukkugaLu)  - ChukkugaLige Arthavannu barediddare

Vyakhyana for Bhagavata from 6th to 10th Skandas also in Kannada.

Galava Charitre

Bheemasena VilAsa

KaLinga Mardana

BuDDi Bramhana Kathe

Gopika ViLasa

Bramara Geete

Seeta swayamvara

KALi swayamvara

Hanumad ViLAsa

Partha VilAsa

Aniruddha vilAsa

Veerabhadra VilAsa

VasiShTa Vishwamitra Akhyaana

Vayu stuti Muyyada pada

Prahlaada charitre

+ Numerous Keertanas, padas, Padyas, SuLadi, UgabhOga etc.

Due to his Tapah Prabhava became AparokshajnAni. He had disciples from Vyasa KooTa and DasakooTa.

VyAsa KooTa:

Rotti VenkaNNacharya

GovEkara Venkataraya

Kanchi Subbarayaru,

Manavi sheenappa

Dasa kooTa:

His son VenkaNNa (Guru Pranesha Vittala)

While describing rayara Mutt Paramapare, Sri Pranesha dasaru has described upto Sri SubhOdendra tIrtharu (1799-1835) and under Uttaradi Mutt parampara upto Sri Sathya Dharama teertharu (1727-1809).

There is an entire dAsa parampare that continued out of the foundation laid by prAnEsha dAsaru in lingasuguru.

1. shri guru prANEsha viTTala dAsaru

2. shri srIsha prANEsha viTTala dAsaru

3. shri guru srIsha prANEsha viTTala dAsaru

4. shri varadEsha viTTala dAsaru

5. shri sundara viTTala dAsaru

6. shri varadEndra viTTala dAsaru

7. shri Ananda viTTala dAsaru

8. shri venkatEsha viTTala dAsaru

9. shri lakshmIsha viTTala dAsaru

10. shri abhinava prANEsha viTTala dAsaru