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Sri Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu is a Telugu language dictionary. It is the most comprehensive monolingual Telugu dictionary. [1] It was published in eight volumes between 1936 and 1974. [2] [3] It was named after Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the zamindar of Pitapuram Estate who sponsored the first four volumes of the dictionary. [4] [5]
Rajasekhara Charitramu is a Telugu novel written by Kandukuri Veeresalingam in 1878. [1] It was first published as a serial in Viveka Chandrika in 1878 and later as a novel in 1880. It is widely regarded as one of the first social novels in Telugu literature and remains a landmark in Indian literary history.
Telugu literature includes poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and other works composed in Telugu. There is some indication that Telugu literature dates at least to the middle of the first millennium. The earliest extant works are from the 11th century when the Mahabharata was first translated to Telugu from Sanskrit by Nannaya.
Telugu literature reached its peak during their period. A new style called prabandha with added fiction and few omissions from the original stories followed during this period. Poets in earlier century like Tikkana and Potana translated the Sanskrit books and epics without changing the stories from the original.
Molla Ramayanam is a Telugu epic poem composed by the 16th-century poetess Molla, based on the Sanskrit Ramayana by Valmiki. [1] [2] Written in accessible Telugu, this version is notable for its extensive use of kandam-style verse, which led to it also being called "Kanda Ramayanam." [3] Molla's Ramayanam is considered the first condensed ...
Mallikarjuna wrote Śivatattvasāramu which was the first independent work in Telugu. It had 489 short verses and contains information about the Saivism preached by him. [1] He later translated that work into Kannada. It is one of the earliest Satakas in Telugu literature.
He notes, “The Ramayana was written in Telugu earlier by many great writers. But when you read Viswanatha Satyanarayana’s Ramayana Kalpavruksham it is like reading a book set in a land of the Telugus. You get an impression that Lord Rama is a Telugu and the place where the epic unfolds
Rathangadutamu [20] is a Sanskrit to Telugu translation of the sandesa kavya of the same name. Unmattaraghavamu [21] is Ramachandra Sastri's Telugu translation of Bhaskara Kavi's Sanskrit original. Satika Andhra Samasa Nalacharitramu [22] is a Telugu translation of the Sanskrit work Nalacharitram with word to word meaning and translation.