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Nannaya
Nannaya ''Bhattaraka'' (sometimes spelled Nannayya or Nannaiah; ca. 11th century) was a Telugu poet and the author of the first '' Andhra Mahabharatam'', a Telugu retelling of the Sanskrit-language '' Mahabharata''. This work, which is rendered in the Champu style, is chaste and polished and of a high literary merit. Nannaya is the first of the three earliest known Telugu poets, called the '' Kavitrayam'' ("trinity of poets"). The advanced and well-developed language used by Nannaya suggests that prior Telugu literature other than royal grants and decrees must have existed before him. However, these presumed works are now lost, and Nannaya is considered the first poet (''adi kavi'') of Telugu language. Legends also credit him with writing the Sanskrit-language ''Andhra-shabda-chintamani'', said to be the first work on Telugu grammar, but these legends are historically inaccurate, and the text is an imagnary work. Grammar Some legends credit Nannaya with writing ''Andh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adikavi Nannaya University
Adikavi Nannaya University (IAST: ''Ādikavi Nannaya Viśvavidyālayamu'') is a state university located in Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established on 22 April 2006 through the Government of Andhra Pradesh Act No. 28 of 2006. It is named after Nannayya, the first attested author of a text composed in the Telugu language. The university attends to the educational needs of both Godavari districts. Currently, all seventy-four post-graduate institutes as well as the 403 degree colleges located within the aforementioned districts maintain their government-mandated university affiliation with Adikavi Nannaya University. These colleges were previously affiliated with Andhra University. The University also hosts four Constituent Colleges namely: University College of Arts and Commerce, University College of Education, University College of Engineering and University College of Science and Technology. Adikavi Nannaya University has extension campus at Kakinada and Tad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appa-kavi
Kākunūri Appa-kavi was a Telugu language poet and grammarian from present-day southern India, noted for writing the Telugu grammar book ''Appakavīyamu'' (1656 CE). He claims to have written the book at the instruction of the god Vishnu, based on a purported Sanskrit language work by the earlier poet Nannaya. Biography Appa-kavi belonged to a Brahmin family from Kakunur (near Mahbubnagar) in present-day Telangana. Unlike other notable contemporary or earlier Telugu poets, he did not have any royal patron: his family was apparently independently wealthy. His grandfather and father were scholars like him,and he describes his father Venganna as ''marata-brahma'' ("a second creator"). The surviving parts of ''Appakavīyamu'' suggest that Appa-kavi had knowledge of Vedas, Vedic sciences, jyotisha, astrology, Agama (Hinduism), Agama literature, poetics, linguistics, and philosophy. Several works are attributed to Appa-kavi, but all of these except two chapters of ''Appakavīyamu'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
