Telugu poet nannaya biography of william

Nannaya was considered as a generous person, and he had helped the poor people by fulfilling their basic needs. He lived a saintly life, and considered as a pious and a humble person. During the final stages of his life, he donated his riches for the welfare of the society, and performed meditation on Lord Shiva and attained MUKTI. Nannaya Bhattaraka took the challenge very seriously.

He scrutinized all the Telugu vocabulary that was in usage at that time, introduced Sanskrit vocabulary, and took characteristics of already well developed Kannada literature. Thus he developed a distinct literary style, meter and grammar. But, he didn't stick to the original. He almost created his own version of Andhra Mahabharatamu by modification, addition and deletion, while maintaining the story line.

His language was very sanskritized and was pleasurable to the reader. It took more years and two more writers, Thikkana and Errana, to complete the work started by Nannaya. Nannaya died while working on the 3rd aranya parvam and it was rumored subsequently that it is inauspicious leading to immediate death to touch on that episode.

So Tikkanna who undertook the completion of this great work, started the work from chapter 4. Yerrapragada, later completed the half portion of the 3rd chapter and lived a full life.

Telugu poet nannaya biography of william

This period was known as period of translations, because during this period various Sanskrit texts and Puranaas were translated into Telugu by scholars. Nannaya is the first of the three Telugu poets, called the Kavitrayam "trinity of poets" , who wrote Andhra Mahabharatam. His work, which is rendered in the Champu style, is chaste and polished and of a high literary merit.

The advanced and well-developed language used by Nannaya suggests that prior Telugu literature other than royal grants and decrees must have existed before him. While some of the grammatical sutras in Appa-kavi's work may be from Nannaya's time, Andhra-shabda-chintamani is an imaginary work, [ 10 ] and was probably fabricated by Bala-sarasvati himself.

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