The fact that Hindus never gave up militarily fighting Muslim tyranny and their illegal occupation of the ancient and sacred Sanatana homeland is well-recorded and equally well-known. However, lesser known are the precise details of the myriad tactics, methods and strategies of their non-military resistance. A major sphere of this resistance was in the field of art, literature, music, and broadly speaking, culture. The Bhakti movement, apart from providing an extraordinary spiritual dimension to this resistance, also gave us innovative and creative expression in these fields.

Thus even in the late Mughal period of Shah Jahan’s reign, the Hindu creative genius didn’t fully dry up. It gifted us such extraordinary giants like Panditaraja Jagannatha, Appayya Dikshita (and later, Nilakanta Dikshita, his protégé), Behari Lal (Hindi poet), and the protagonist of our essay, Acharya Kavindra Saraswati Vidyanidhi.

Unfortunately, no comprehensive details concerning this great Sanatana savant are available. But we do have some sketchy information about his life, which gives us a peek into the blazing prowess of the man.

In fact, Kavindra is simply a title........

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