Srisitaramasuprabhatam
# Srisitaramasuprabhatam

Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam (Sanskrit: श्रीसीतारामसुप्रभातम्) (2009), literally The beautiful dawn of Sītā and Rāma, is a Saṃskṛta minor poem (Khaṇḍakāvya) of the Suprabhātakāvya (dawn-poem) genre composed by shri Jagadguru Rambhadracharya in the year 2008. The poem consists of 43 verses in five different metres.

A copy of the poem, with a Hindi commentary by the poet himself, was published by the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Vikalang Vishvavidyalaya, Chitrakuta, Uttar Pradesh. The book was released in Chitrakoot on the Makara Saṅkrānti day of January 14, 2009. The day was the 59th birthday of Jagadguru swami Rāmabhadrācārya. An audio CD of the composition sung by the poet himself in the Bairagi Rāga was released by Yuki Cassettes, New Delhi.

## Composition

The work was composed by Rāmabhadrācārya in the Āshvin Navarātra (September 30 to October 8) of 2008 when he was in Tirupati for a Kathā programme. In the prologue of the work, Rāmabhadrācārya says that the genre of Suprabhātakāvya began with a single verse (1.23.1) of Bālakāṇḍa in Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa.

The poet mentions the popularity of Veṅkaṭeśasuprabhātam for Veṅkaṭeśvara, and says that hitherto there was no extensive Suprabhātakāvya in praise of Rāma, which coupled with his stay at Tirupati, prompted him to compose the work.

## The poem

The work consists of 43 verses, of which 40 verses form the text of the Suprabhātam. In addition, there are two verses in the prologue (the first of which is the verse from Vālmīki' Rāmāyaṇa) and there is one verse in the epilogue which is the Phalaśruti. The Suprabhātam verses are composed in five metres -

* The two verses in the prologue are in the Anuṣṭup metre
* Verses 1 to 8 are in the Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre
* Verses 9 to 32 are in the Vasantatilakā metre. This is the metre usually used in the Suprabhātakāvya genre.
* Verses 33 to 36 are in the Sragdharā metre
* Verses 37 to 40 are in the Mālinī metre
* The Phalaśruti at the end is in the Vasantatilakā metre.
