Paravastu Chinnayasuri (1806/7–1861/2) (Telugu: పరవస్తు చిన్నయ సూరి) was a
Telugu
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* 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
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writer who played a prominent role in the elevation of prose to importance in
Telugu literature. He was the first Telugu Pandit at the
Presidency College, Madras. He was born in 1806/7 in
Perambur of
Chengalpattu district and died in 1861/2. Suri was born in a
Satani
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family as the son of Venkata Rangayya, a
Vaishnavite Scholar. He worked as a Telugu teacher at
Pachaiyappa's College in Madras. He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company. He was a Pundit in the Sanskrit, Telugu, Prakrit, and Tamil languages. He was acclaimed as a profound scholar in Telugu and Sanskrit in the traditional education. More than a third of his life span was spent in teaching Telugu in schools and in the Presidency college, Madras.
Literary works
Chinnayasuri translated the first two books of the
Sanskrit Panchatantra
The ''Panchatantra'' (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, sa, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. into Telugu, entitling his translation the ''nīticaṃdrika.'' It was published by
Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons
Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons (Telugu: వావిళ్ల రామస్వామి శాస్త్రులు అండ్ సన్స్) is a 150-year-old Indian publishing house.
It was started by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu i ...
in Chennai.
He wrote the ''bālavyākaraṇamu'' (''Children's Grammar''), a textbook for teaching
Telugu grammar
The first treatise on Telugu grammar ( te, వ్యాకరణం ''vyākaraṇam''), the ''Andhra Sabda Chintamani'' (Telugu language, Telugu: ఆంధ్ర శబ్ద చింతామణి ''Āndhra śabda cintāmaṇi'') was written i ...
in schools.
He translated
Thomas Lumisden Strange's ''Manual of Hindoo Law'' of 1856, entitling it the ''hiṃdūdharmaśāstrasaṃgrahamu.''
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070310212743/http://www.teluguworld.org/lit.html
*http://panchatantra.org/index.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20090410030240/http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/Books/12/Telugu/Prose/1%20Mithrabedhamu.pdf
*https://archive.org/stream/HistoryCultureOfTheAndhras/TXT/00000324.txt
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Telugu writers
1807 births
1861 deaths
Academic staff of Presidency College, Chennai
19th-century Indian linguists
Sanskrit–Telugu translators
Grammarians from India