GUWAHATI: Jyoti Bora Dutta, a resident of Charingia village in Jorhat, has hand woven Srimanta Sankardev’s Gunamala on a Muga cloth.
It is to be mentioned that Dutta has hand woven the entire Gunomala.
The Gunamala, the 'Garland of Praises (for Lord Krishna)' written by Srimanta Sankardev is a magnificent composition capturing in racy, rhyming and sonorous verses, the essence of the Bhagavata Purana. It is a sacred text for all Assamese Vaisnavas and is often placed in the thapana (pedestal) or the Guru Asana (sacred throne) in the Namghar as the object of veneration.
The Gunamala was written within one night at the request of Koch king Nara Narayan in 1552.
Srimanta Sankardev was a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of Assam.
