Charyapada

Sharing a rare collection; named Charyapada, the collection of the oldest verses written in pre-Modern Bengali or Maithili. The language Maithili later transformed in various parts of the states of Kalinga and produced rich languages like Bengali (in the Delta of Ganges and Brahmaputra or Bengal); Oriya (in Costal Utkal or Orissa); Maithili, Angika, Bhojpuri and Magadhi (in western parts or Bihar) and Assamese (in North Eastern Region or Assam).

 

Written between 8^th and 12^th Century, this collection of mystical poems from the tantric tradition in Kalinga, original palm-leaf manuscript of the Charyapada, was discovered by Haraprasad Shastri at the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907. This manuscript was edited by Shastri and published by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad as a part of his Hajar Bacharer Purano Bangala Bhasay Bauddhagan O Doha (The Buddhist Songs and Couplets in a thousand years old Bengali Language) in 1916 under the name of Charyacharyavinishchayah.

 

For further details refer to www.banglapedia.org/HT/C_0144.HTM or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charyapada or several other sites.

 

Attaching a page from Original Manuscript and the ancient Odia script in Dohakosa used by Sarahapada:

 

 

 

Enjoy Charyapada in Maithili (using Bengali phonetic) and equivalent English translation…..