Sarah | Sarahpa | Pioneer poet of Angika language | सरह | सरहपा | अंगिका भाषा के आदि कवि | Angika Sahityakar

Sarah | Sarahpa | Pioneer poet of Angika language | सरह | सरहपा | अंगिका भाषा के आदि कवि | Angika Sahityakar

 Sarah | Sarahpa

सरह | सरहपा

Pioneer poet of Angika language 

 अंगिका भाषा के आदि कवि

Angika Sahityakar

 

Saraha (अंगिका: सरह), Sarahapa (अंगिका: सरहपा), Sarahapāda (अंगिका : सरहपाद), or in the Tibetan language The Arrow Shooter, (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas. The name Saraha means "the one who has shot the arrow.".^[1] According to one, scholar, "This is an explicit reference to an incident in many versions of his biography when he studied with a dakini disguised as a low-caste arrow smith. Metaphorically, it refers to one who has shot the arrow of non duality into the heart of duality." He is also often referred to as The Great Brahmin.

Saraha is considered to be one of the founders of Buddhist Vajrayana, and particularly of the Mahamudra tradition.

Saraha was originally known as Rāhula or Rāhulbhadra and was born in Roli, a region of the city-state of Rajni in eastern India, into a Brahmin family and studied at the Buddhist monastic university Nalanda.^[3] According to Sankrityayan and Dvijram Yadav, Saraha was born in Raggyee village of ancient Bhagalpur, the then Capital of Anga Desh.^[4]

 

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Sarah | Sarahpa

सरह | सरहपा

Pioneer poet of Angika language 

अंगिका भाषा के आदि कवि 

Angika Sahityakar