I. Panduranga Rao
Ilapavuluri Panduranga Rao (15 March 1930 – 25 December 2011) was an Indian scholar, poet, writer, linguist and orator of Telugu descent. Rao played a significant role in the establishment of Indian civil service exams in multiple languages. He also created many creative studies and translations of classical works into Hindi, Telugu and English. Early life Rao was born in Ilapavuluru village in Andhra Pradesh. His elder brother, Kameswara Rao, was a musician and musicologist who lectured extensively on Carnatic music. After graduating from university, he taught mathematics and Hindi in Ongole, Guntur, Nellore and Rajahmundry. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s call to bridge the many ‘divides’ in the Indian society, Rao decided to study Hindi language at Nagpur University. In 1956, he became the first Telugu to gain a PhD in Hindi. His doctoral thesis on a comparative study of Telugu and Hindi drama was among the first comparative studies in the country. Per ...
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Panduranga Rao At His Eloquent Best
Vithoba, also known as Vi(t)thal(a) and Panduranga, is a Hindu deity predominantly worshipped in the Indian state of Maharashtra and Karnataka. He is generally considered as a manifestation of the god Vishnu, or his avatar Krishna. Vithoba is often depicted as a dark young boy, standing arms akimbo on a brick, sometimes accompanied by his consort Rakhumai. Vithoba is the focus of an essentially monotheistic, non-ritualistic bhakti-driven Varkari faith of Maharashtra and the Haridasa faith of Karnataka. Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur is his main temple. Vithoba legends revolve around his devotee Pundalik who is credited for bringing the deity to Pandharpur, and around Vithoba's role as a saviour to the poet-saints of the Varkari faith. The Varkari poet-saints are known for their unique genre of devotional lyric, the abhang, dedicated to Vithoba and composed in Marathi. Other devotional literature dedicated to Vithoba includes the Kannada hymns of the Haridasa and the Marathi ...
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