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Narayaneeyam
नारायणीयम्
Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri’s sixteenth-century retelling of the Bhagavata Purana, addressed verse by verse to the Lord of Guruvayur. Read it with meanings and word-by-word glosses, hear every line recited, and follow its stories through a knowledge graph.
सान्द्रानन्दावबोधात्मकमनुपमितं कालदेशावधिभ्यांनिर्मुक्तं नित्यमुक्तं निगमशतसहस्रेण निर्भास्यमानम् ।
- dashakas
- 100dashakas
- verses
- 1,036verses
- names and ideas mapped
- 231names and ideas mapped
Three ways in
The same poem, to read closely, to listen to, or to wander through.
Read
Each dashaka set as a chapter, with the meaning of every verse, a word-by-word gloss, and padaccheda when you want the words apart.
Open the readerListen
Recitation that follows the text line by line, and carries on through verses and dashakas for as long as you like.
Begin at Dashaka 1Discover
Episodes, characters, places, concepts and verse functions drawn as graphs, each link confirmed by the Sanskrit.
Open the graphsExplore by theme
Five knowledge graphs, one for each way of asking what a verse is about.
Episodes
The stories of the Bhagavata, in the order the poem tells them.
71 terms
Characters
Deities, avatars, devotees, kin and adversaries named in the verses.
96 terms
Places
Where each verse is set, on earth and beyond it.
24 terms
Concepts
The poem's religious and philosophical vocabulary.
36 terms
Verse function
What each verse is doing: narrating, praising, petitioning or teaching.
4 terms
Stories from the poem
Open a dashaka by the episode it tells.
Dashaka 1
The churning of the ocean
Dashaka 11
Sanaka and the gatekeepers
Dashaka 18
Vena and Prithu
Dashaka 23
Chitraketu and Vritra
Dashaka 32
The Fish
Dashaka 42
The cart demon
Dashaka 52
Brahma hides the calves
Dashaka 58
The forest fire
Dashaka 67
Krishna vanishes from the gopis
Dashaka 74
Krishna enters Mathura
Dashaka 78
The wedding of Rukmini
Dashaka 86
The Kurukshetra war and the Gita
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Stotra · Sanskrit · 1586
Narayaneeyam
Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri · 100 dashakas, 1,036 verses
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