Mulugu Papayaradhya, also known as Mulugu Papayya and Sangameswara Sastry, (1778–1852) was a

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

and

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

scholar, preceptor, translator, and writer, known for his translation of the

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from Sanskrit into Telugu and for being the preceptor and court poet of the Raja of Amaravati,

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. Mulugu Papayaradhya was born to Viranaradhya, a prominent Veera Shaiva ''acharya,'' and Akkamba. He lived in

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, now in the

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. He is known to have written more than a hundred works in Telugu and Sanskrit. He was titled as Abhinava Kalidasa. He was a Veera Shaivite ''acharya'' (preceptor).

Work

Mulugu Papayaradhya is regarded as the first poet to translate the

Devi Bhagavata Purana The Devi Bhagavata Purana ( sa, देवी भागवतपुराणम्, '), also known as the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavata Purana or simply ''Devi Bhagavatam'', is one of the eighteen Purana, Mahapuranas of ...

into Telugu. This translation was done at the request of Vasireddy Venkatadri Nayudu's son, and Papayaradhya dedicated it to Kashi Vishwanatha, a form of

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. From the more than hundred works he wrote, ''Kalyanacampu'', ''Ekadasivratacampu'', ''Aryasati'', ''Sivastotra'', and ''Vedantasarasangraha'' are among the more prominent Sanskrit works. Papayaradhya also wrote the ''Ahalya Sankrandana Vilasamu''.

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