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The Basava Puranam is a 13th-century Telugu epic poem written by Palkuriki Somanatha.It is a sacred text of the Lingayat tradition. The epic poem narrates the life story of philosopher and social reformer Basava (1134–1196 CE), also known as Basavaṇṇa, Basavēśvara, Basavēśa, and Basavarāja, the founder of Lingayat. [1]
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.
Vavilla Press published mostly classic literature, epics, Puranas, and commentaries. They published Sanskrit text in Telugu script so that any Telugu reader person can read the ancient Sanskrit texts and study them. During his lifetime more than 900 books in Telugu, Sanskrit, Tamil and English languages were published.
The Tamil text was published in 1848 [6] and 1855 [7] and translated by S. M. Natesa Sastri as "Dravidian Nights" in 1886. The translation contains twelve stories in all. [8] Although it was important as a collection of folktales, it did not have much effect on Tamil literary culture. [9] The 1941 film Madanakamarajan was broadly based on this ...
Veyi Padagalu (pronunciation: veɪjɪ pədəgɑlʊ, English: "A Thousand Hoods") is an epic Telugu novel written by Viswanatha Satyanarayana. It is a critically acclaimed work of 20th century Telugu literature and has been called "a novel of Tolstoyan scope". [1] The novel has been translated into several other Indian languages.
Amaravati Kathalu is a collection of Telugu short stories written by Satyam Sankaramanchi. [1] The anthology, comprising 100 stories, revolves around the village of Amaravati and its people. These stories were first serialized in the Andhra Jyothi weekly magazine between 1975 and 1977 and were later compiled into a book by Navodaya Publishers ...
Even C. P. Brown appreciated his efforts, stating: "In days when people had to read books written by hand, V. Ramaswamy Sastrulu relieved their difficulties by starting a printing press". [4] It was later handled by his son Vavilla Venkateswara Sastrulu, who improved it greatly, printing more than 900 books in Telugu, Tamil and English.
Tulasi Dalam (Telugu: తులసిదళం, English : Basil Leaf) is a Telugu thriller novel written by Yandamuri Veerendranath. [1] It was published in Andhra Bhoomi weekly in 1980 as a serial and got tremendous popularity. [2] It was republished many times as a paperback and sold approximately 50,000 copies.