Vemana

Vemana, popularly known as Yogi Vemana, was an Indian

philosopher and poet in the Telugu language. His poems are known
Vemana
for their use of simple language and native idioms. They discuss the
subjects of yoga, wisdom and morality.

Contents
Early life and background
Death
Poetic style
The films
References
External links

Painting of Vemana
Early life and background Born 17th century
Kadapa, Andhra
There is no consensus among scholars about the period in which Pradesh, India
Vemana lived. C.P. Brown, known for his research on Vemana, Died Katarupalli Village,
estimates his year of birth to be 1652 based on some of his verses. Anantapur District of
Various sources say he was born in the fifteenth, sixteenth and Andhra Pradesh
seventeenth centuries.[1]
Occupation Achala Yogi, Poet,
Vemana was from a peasant community. Brown says vemana was Social Reformer
the veerashiva Jangama community. Cp brown says in vemana
verses 804,813 about veerashaiva tradition. Vemana was a great yogi in achala sidhantha.

Vemana was the born in gandikota kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh.

Death
There is a headstone marking the grave of Yogi Vemana in kataru palli (Kadiri Town), a village in Kadiri
Taluk, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh. It is believed widely that Vemana died in this village. Being a
Yogi, he was buried and not cremated.

Poetic style
Many lines of yogi Vemana's poems are now colloquial phrases of the Telugu language. They end with the
signature line Viswadaabhi Raama Vinura Vema, literally Beloved of Viswada, listen Vema. There are many
interpretations of what the last line signifies.
Vemana's poems were collected and published by Brown in the 19th century.[2] His poems are of many
kinds, social, moral, satirical and mystic nature. Most of them are in Ataveladi (dancing lady) meter.

The films
Yogi Vemana is a 1947 Telugu film directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy and starring Chittor V.
Nagaiah.
Yogi Vemana is again made as Telugu film in 1986 directed by C. S. Rao and starring
Vijayachander.

References
1. Jackson, William Joseph (2004). Vijayanagara voices: exploring South Indian history and
Hindu literature (https://books.google.com/books?id=PxvDNBc4qwUC&pg=PA112e). Ashgate
Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-7546-3950-3.
2. Brown, C.P. (1829). Verse of Vemana: Translated from the Telugu (http://www.sacred-texts.co
m/hin/vov/).

External links
[Dr. Sridhar Rapelli, New York (https://archive.org/details/VemanaYogi-AchalaParipurnaRajayo
gaSiddhantamu)]
Vemana Yogi - Varna Vyavastha, Dr. Sridhar Rapelli, Commentator- 2002 (https://archive.org/d
etails/VemanaYogiAndVarnaVyavastha)
Verses of Vemana - English Translation by C.P.Brown (http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vov/)
The story of Vemana told by (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56f_RX-jS4&feature=player
_detailpage#t=65)Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

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