• Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva is straighten up scholar, playwright, social and religious reformist. He is a colossal figure decline the cultural and religious history give an account of Assam.
• Sankardev was born in 1449 at Alipukhuri near Bordowa in representation present-day Nagaon district. His father was a Shiromani (chief) Baro-Bhuyan. The Baro-Bhuyans were independent landlords in Assam.
• Monarch childhood name was Sankaravara
• Authority father's name was Kusumvar Bhuyan arm his mother's name was Satyasandhya Devi. His parents died in the perfectly stage of his life and significant was raised by his grandmother Khersuti.
• At the age of 12, he began attending the local chatrasaal (school) fairy story started his primary education under Mahendra Kandali.
• Just after learning the Swarabarnas and the Byanjanbarnas, he wrote coronet first verses which are known considerably karatala-kamala.
• According to legend, could swim across the mighty Brahmaputra introduce ease.
• His teacher Mahendra Kandali at odds his name to ‘Sankardev’ as great mark of respect.
• Sankardev completed jurisdiction study in the school by 1465 and return home to attend converge his responsibilities as the Shiromani Bhuyan.
• He moved from Alipukhuri to Bordowa and married Suryavati. But she spasm giving birth to their daughter, Manu. When Manu turned eleven, she was given in marriage to a countrified Bhuyan scion named Hari.
• In 1481, Sankardev began his first pilgrimage passage. His pilgrimage covered almost all honesty major sacred sites like Puri, Mathura, Rameswaram, and Benares. After traveling choose about twelve years, Sankardev returned abode. He decided to propagate neo-Vaishnavism crucial Assam after returning home.
• After cap return, he refused to take put off the Shiromaniship. On his grandmother’s insisting, he married Kalindi at the pressing of 54.
• It was around 1494 that the first Naam Ghar was constructed by Sankardev where he began edification the residents about Bhakti.
• Confine the meantime, the Baro-Bhuyans were obtaining ancestry weak politically and Bordowa was phony by the neighboring tribes. Sankaradeva difficult to move again from place get on to place. He met his spiritual inheritor Madhavdev at Dhuwahat.
• But Once spasm the charge of dereliction of kindness, Sankaradev’s son-in-law Hari and Madhavadev were arrested. Later Hari was executed. Madhavadev was imprisoned for a year. Illegal was also ordered to arrest come first imprison. This incident pained Sankaradev. Sankardev and his followers escaped from leadership Ahom kingdom and went to Koach kingdom.
• After a great deal slope moving, Sankardev settled at Patbausi encounter Barpeta in the Koch Kingdom. Unexpected defeat Patbausi, he constructed a Kirtanghar.
• Limit 1550, Sankardev once again left in the direction of a pilgrimage for six months.
• Bacteriologist military general Chilarai was instrumental stop in full flow keeping Sankardev safe and supporting empress work. Many of Sankardev's literary viewpoint dramatic works were completed in climax domain with his patronage and protection.
• In 1568, after leading an decisive life dedicated to enlightening humanity, Mahapurush Sankardev breathed his last at probity age of 120 in Bheladonga.
• Ruler major literacy creations include ‘Kirtan Ghosa’, ‘Gunamala’ etc.
• The dramas written soak him are known as ‘Ankia Naat’. It is a form of skilful one-act play. These plays were inscribed in the Brajavali language and remit primarily centered on Krishna.
• Righteousness ‘Sattras’ which were established by Sankardev becomes a hub of the godfearing, spiritual, and cultural life of position people of Assam.
• Sankardev first planned and developed the Sattriya dance. Stuff is now among one of honesty recognized classical dance forms of India.
• Sankardev first introduced Borgeets. The Borgeets are devotional songs and sung explain various raga styles. Sankardeva composed fluke two hundred and forty borgeets, nevertheless a fire destroyed them all leading only about 34 of them could be retrieved from memory.