Nadella Purushottama Kavi (23 April 1863 – 27 November 1938) was an Indian

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. Purushottama Kavi is notable for his "Chitra Kavyas". He was a great scholar in

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and composed more than 100 works in

and

. He also authored several plays in Hindi for the Hindu Nataka Samajam.

Biography

Nadella was born in a

-speaking

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family of Haritasa gotra on 23 April 1863 in Seetharamapuram, his ancestors lived in Nadella village in the

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district. His parents were Subbambika and Kameswara Sastry. When his village was destroyed by a flood in 1864, his family migrated to

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. He learned

and

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. Having returned from Hyderabad to his native village, Seetharamapuram. After his father died, he completed his secondary education in Hindu High School, Bandar. Later, he worked as a teacher. After writing many plays in Hindustani which were commissioned by the Bandar National Theatrical Society, he died on 27 November 1938.

Works

He started the magazine ''Budhajana Vidheyani'' in 1886, he worked as headmaster in Hindu Highschool starting in 1887, after which In 1890 he started a Hindu School and Hindu Bala Samajam. In 1879, he wrote the yakshagana ''Ahalyasankramdanam''. In 1890 he published ''Harischandra'', a play, in his magazine. His works in

include ''AhalyasankrandanaM'' (1883), ''Harischandra'' (1917), ''Parijatapaharanam'', ''Sarangadahra'', ''Droupadi vastrapaharanam'', ''Chandrahasa'' (1916) and ''Harikatha rahasanam'' (1922). He wrote 32 plays in the rupaka format between 1884 and 1886 in Hindustani. He staged them in Machilipatnam and other towns in Andhra Pradesh. Kavi occasionally took the part of Sutradhar on the stage.

References

Bibliography

* "Nadella purushottama kavi", Nataka vijnana sarwaswam, potti sriramulu Telugu viswavidyalayam, Hyderabad, 2008, page no. 407. * "Andhra Rachayitalu", Madhunapantula satyanarayana sastry, 1950, pages: 208-11

External links

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