![]() His other great work is a grammatical treatise known as Andhra-bhasa-bhusanamu, which is the first work of its kind in Telugu. Ketana (13th century A.D.) translated Dasakumaracharita of Dandin and dedicated it to Tikkana. He undertook the task of completing the translation of Mahabharata left unfinished by Nannaya and succeeded in completing the remaining fifteen parvans. His first work was Nirvacanottara Ramayanamu written in Kavya style. Tikkanna Somyaji (1200-1300 A.D.) brought together the Saivaite and non-Saivaite schools of Telugu poets. The first translation of Ramayana in Telugu, which is referred to as Ranganatha Ramayana, is credited to Gona Buddha Reddi (13 th century). His famous works are Basava Puranamu and Panditaradhyacharita, which are biographies of the two great Saiva saints Basaveshvara and Panditaradhya. Palakuriki Somanatha (c.1200-1240) was the pioneer in creating new literary genres in Telugu like gadya, ragada, sataka and udaharana. Nannecodu, the first of the Saiva poets in Telugu, wrote the great kavya Kumara-sambhavamu in campu style. The reflection of Virasaivism was also on the Telugu literature. saw the emergence of the Lingayata school of thought or Virasaivism, which propagated bhakti towards Siva as the only means of attaining salvation. The twelfth and the thirteenth centuries A.D. when the language got stylized and rigid, closing itself from the influence of contemporary spoken language. The real development of Telugu began during the period 1100-1600 A.D. This period also saw the translation of Ganitasara, a mathematical treatise of Mahivaracharya, into Telugu by Pavuluri Mallana. In the period 500-1100 A.D., Telugu was confined to the poetic works and flourished in the courts of kings and among scholars. Nannaya is also credited with a grammatical work, the Andhra Sabda Chintamani. Nananaya’s Mahabharatam could not be completed during his lifetime. This argument is based on the inscriptional evidence of the 7 th century, which shows metrical compositions rendered in Telugu. This work, which is rendered in the Campu style, is so chaste and polished and of such a high literary merit that many scholars do not rule out the possibility of the existence of literary works in Telugu in the pre-Nannaya period. Nannaya’s Mahabharatam (1030 A.D.), which is an adaptation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, marks the beginning of the Telugu literature. ![]()
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