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Some facts about Telugu


you might not know

Telugu is known as the "Italian of the


East" because it is the only language
where most words can be found to
end in "vowelic" form (acchulu) which
makes it convenient for poetry.
Telugu language it therefore naturally
poetic.

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All major Vedas, Puranas and holy texts have been


translated or even written in Telugu centuries ago.

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There may be hundreds of variants of Ramayana


itself among the famous ones Molla Ramayana,
Bhaskara Ramayana, Sri Rangantha Ramayana, ,
Srimadramayana Kalpavriksham, besides Valmiki
Ramayana.

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It is very hard to find so many variants of Ramayana


in other languages than Southern India Languages.

Valmiki Ramayana itself, believed to be atleast


2 millenia by historians old and even older in
our culture mentions names of places in India.
While most of them have evolved to newer
names. For example Delhi was once known as
Indraprastha, a few of the names have
remained same such as Lanka, Kerala.
Andhra is among the few that has remained the
same.

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Pothana a common surname in Andhra and Mauritius as well, was the name of a
telugu poet (15th century) who translated many works, who was known for his
simple farmer's life and his devotion to Shiva and Sri Rama.
Legend goes that when Pothana was stuck on a verse while translating Srimad
Bhagavatam, Sri Rama himself came without his knowledge and wrote the verse
and left. The famous verse is here:

PalikeDidhi Bhagavatamata

Palikinchedivadu Ramabhadrundata Ne

Palikina Bhavaharamagunata

PalikedaVerondu Gaatha PalukagaNela

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Translated it means : "That which is spoken is the Bhagavatam and the one who
made me speak/chant this is Lord Rama. The result of chanting this
(Bhagavatamata) is ultimate freedom, the Liberation of soul. So, let me sing it,
since there is no other story better than this (Bhagavatam)."

Sri Maha Vishnu himself once appeared in one of the greatest Telugu Kings Sri Krishna
Devaraya's dream and ordered him to write AmuktaMalyada, a great epic work of Telugu
literature. Sri Krishna originally intended to write it in Sanskrit(God's language) when the
Lord himself told him to write it in Telugu as Telugu was dear to Sri MahaVishnu.

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telugadElayanna, dESambu telugEnu


telugu vallaBhunDa telugokanDa

yella nRpulu golva nerugavE bAsADi


dESa BhAShalandu telugu lessa

r Vihu's reason on why muktamlyada should be written in telugu by Sri


Krishnadevaraya

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Rama
yana

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothana

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnadevaraya#A
muktamalyada

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