LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Sankardeva and His Prose

Deepak Gogoi, Ph.D.

1. 1 Introduction – Plays of Sankardeva, Beginnings of Assamese Prose in Writing

Saint Sankardeva (15th-16th century) was not only the founder of the Neo- Vaishnavite movement in Assam but also the first person to exercise the use of Assamese prose in writing. The most remarkable phenomenon in the history of Assamese literature is that it was Sankardeva who started a new genre of literature in the Assamese language.

The earliest available Assamese prose writing is found in the form of plays that were composed by Sankardeva. The much travelled saint Sankardeva happened to visit most of the pilgrim centers of India. Undoubtedly, he had seen the dramatic performances in different parts of the country. In addition, there are so many popular dramatic performances in Assamese society since time immemorial. These might have influenced him to develop a new form of literature in the Assamese prose.

It should be mentioned that the playwright styled these plays as nat or nataka. Later on these plays gained the popularity as the Ankiya nat ( a drama, one act play). Now it is considered as one of the generic terms in Assamese literature.

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Deepak Gogoi, M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Duliajan College
Duliajan 786602
Dibrugarh District
Assam
India
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