Mallinātha Sūri

Mallinātha was born in a Telugu Brahmin family of the Kamakayanasa gotra{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QaIRAQAAMAAJ&q=mallinatha+suri |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: K to Navalram |date=1987 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-0-8364-2283-2 |pages=2566 |language=en}} with the surname Kolachala, Kolachela, Kolichala or Kolichelama.Mallinātha

By P. G. Lalye, p. 13 The village Kolichelama (currently known as Kolchāram) is near Medak, a village and mandal in the Medak District of Telangana.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nl5uAAAAMAAJ&q=mallinatha+suri |title=A Thousand Laurels--Dr. Sadiq Naqvi: Studies on Medieval India with Special Reference to Deccan |date=2005 |publisher=Department of History & Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, Osmania University |pages=118 |language=en}} When Kākatīya rule ended, the scholars of the Kolachelama family migrated to Rāchakonḍa, the capital of Singabhūpāla. From the colophons of the Sanjīvani, it is known that Singabhūpāla honoured Mallinātha with the title of Mahāmahopādhyāya, and Mallinātha's younger son with the title of Mahopādhyāya. He had two sons, namely Peddibhatta and Kumaraswamin.{{Cite book |last=Banerji |first=Sures Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2EwAAAAYAAJ&q=Mallin%C4%81tha+S%C5%ABri |title=A Companion to Indian Philosophy |date=1996 |publisher=B.R. Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-81-7018-743-1 |pages=192 |language=en}} Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao (1854-1919), a Telugu scholar of theatre, was a descendant of Mallinātha.{{Citation |last=Lal |first=Ananda |title=Rao, Kolachalam Srinivasa |date=2004 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195644463.001.0001/acref-9780195644463-e-0549 |work=The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre |access-date=2023-12-09 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195644463.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-564446-3}} Vinay Chandra Suri, perhaps a descendant of Mallinātha, wrote the Mallinātha Charita kavya, a biography of Mallinātha in verse.{{Cite book |last=Suri |first=Vinayacandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8pIAQAAMAAJ&q=Mallinatha+Suri |title=The Mallinatha charitra |date=1912 |publisher=H. Bhurabhai |language=sa}}

Mallinātha is well known as a commentator who has written glosses on the Classical epics of the Sanskrit canon, besides his commentaries on Śāstric works. His Sanjivani commentary on Meghasandesa is the most popular one.[https://books.google.com/books?id=E7oNAAAAIAAJ&q=Mallinatha+Suri Meghasandeśa: an assessment from the South], p. 24 He is also known as a poet, a fact which is rather unknown, though the names of his creative compositions are known to the scholars of Sanskrit literature.

Source:{{Cite book |last=Madras |first=University of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bL5iAAAAMAAJ&q=Mallin%C4%81tha+S%C5%ABri |title=Annals of Oriental Research |date=1957 |publisher=University of Madras. |pages=53 |language=en}}

The following is the list of his commentaries on the Classical Epics of Sanskrit:

1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RZHUPgAACAAJ Sañjīvinī] - Commentary on Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa, Kumārasambhava and Meghadūta
2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=e2BFPwAACAAJ Ghaṇṭāpatha] - Commentary on Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=euI2swEACAAJ Sarvāṅkaṣa] - Commentary on Māgha's Śiśupālavadha
4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=s2OBswEACAAJ Jīvātu] - Commentary on Śrīharṣa's Naiṣadhīyacarita
5. Sarvapathīnā - Commentary on Bhaṭṭikāvya

The following is the list of his commentaries on Śāstric works:

1. Tarala - commentary on Vidyādhara's Ekāvalī - alaṃkāra śāstra
2. Niṣkaṇṭakā - commentary on Varadarāja's Tārkikarakṣā ṭīkā

Sushil Kumar De notes that Mallinātha's commentary on Meghaduta was the most well known commentary.{{Cite web |title=Some Commentators on the Meghaduta |url=https://www.wilbourhall.org/sansknet/jyotisha/papers_on_jyothisa/Meghaduta.htm |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=www.wilbourhall.org}}

1. Raghuvīracaritā
2. Vaiśyavamśa Sudhākara
3. Udāra Kāvya

Interestingly, in the Marathi Language, there is a word 'Mallinathi', which means 'a long monologue' spoken by somebody. For example, if a Mr. X says a Mr. Y is doing a "Mallinathi", it means that Mr. Y has been speaking for far too long.{{Cite book |last=Patel |first=Deven M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GmsAgAAQBAJ&dq=Mallin%C4%81tha+S%C5%ABri&pg=PA65 |title=Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia |date=2014-01-07 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-16680-5 |pages=63 |language=en}}

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1. Mallināthamanīṣā: a collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Mallinatha, edited by P. G. Lalye, Published 1981, Dept. of Sanskrit, Osmania University
2. Mallinātha by P. G. Lalye, Sahitya Akademi
3. Mallinātha's Ghaṇṭāpatha on the Kirātārjunīya I-VI: Part one: Introduction, Translation and Notes by Roodbergen JAF, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1984
4. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/a-sorry-comment-on-kolcharams-literary-stalwart/article3163121.ece

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