Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons (

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: వావిళ్ల రామస్వామి శాస్త్రులు అండ్ సన్స్) is a 150-year-old Indian

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house. It was started by

Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu (1812–1891) was a Telugu Pundit and owner of the Telugu publishing house Saraswati Mudralayamu, which was later renamed Vavilla Press. The Vavilla family in Andhra Pradesh secured a page in history as a premier publis ...

in 1854 in

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in a press named Hindu Bhasha Sanjeevini. Later he established Adi Saraswathi Nilayam. During his lifetime, he published about 50 important books in

and

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. His well-educated son Vavilla Venkateswara Sastrulu led the house in 1906 and actively continued the tradition and improved it greatly. He named it "Vavilla Press". It was associated with

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and Choukhamba Press of

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. He published books with perfect proofreading by the experts in the field and successfully printed in Royal, Demy and Crown sizes. He was the first to get his books bound with calico cover and glittering letters. Vavilla Press published mostly classic literature, epics, Puranas, and commentaries. They published Sanskrit text in Telugu script so that any Telugu reader person can read the ancient Sanskrit texts and study them. During his lifetime more than 900 books in Telugu, Sanskrit, Tamil and English languages were published.

Publications

This is partial list of some important publications: * Anandamatha by Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1907) * Narasabhoopaaleeyam by Puranam Suryanaraya Sastrulu (1909) * Vaijayanti Vilasamu (1909) * Radhika Santwanamu by Muddu Palani (1910) * Kavi Jeevitamulu by Gurajada Sriramamurti (1913) * Vikramarka Charitramu by

Jakkana Peram Raju Jakkana is a famous Telugu language, Telugu poet in the early 15th century (1450). He was born to Akkamamba and Annayamathyulu in a Niyogi Brahmin family. He served as a poet in the court of Proudha Devarayalu. His famous work is ''Vik ...

(1913) * Srimath Andhra Maha Bhagavatham by Bammera Pothana (edited by Rayadurgam Narasayya Sastrulu) (1915) * Bhadradri Rama Satakamu by

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(1916) * Bhaskara Ramayana (1923) * Ramarajiyamu or Narapativijayamu (1923) * Bhakthi Rasa Shatakha Samputam (1926) * Soundarya Tilaka by Chilakamarti Lakshminarasimham (1926) * Andhra Vangmya Caritra Sangrahamu by K. Venkatanarayana Ravu (1928) * Kavitraya Kavitā Vimarśanamu by Gur̲r̲amu Vēṅkaṭasubbarāmayya (1933) * Vēdamu Vēṅkaṭarāyaśāstri Saṃskr̥ti by Gur̲r̲amu Vēṅkaṭasubbarāmayya (1938) * Vruddha Paarasharyamu by Parasharam (1940) * Barthruhari Subhashitamu by T. Benarji (1949) * Andhra Vyakaranamu by Vedam Pattabhiram Sastry (1951) * Sreemadandra Bhagavathamu by Bhammera Potha Raju (1952) * Sri Gopala Sahasranama stotramu (1955) * English-Telugu Dictionary by P. Shankaranarayana (1964) * Sri Mahabhakta Vijayamu by Sripada Subramanya Sastri (1966) * Atukuri Molla Ramayan (1968) * Kshetraya Padamulu by Muvva Goopaala * Sri Lakshmee Stotra Ratnatrayamu (1999) * Bruhatstotra Ratnakaramu (2005) * Muhuurta Darpand-amu (2005)Muhuurtadarpanamu at Internet Archives.
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Lalita sahasranama ''Lalita Sahasranama'' (IAST: lalitāsahasranāma; Sanskrit: ललिता सहस्रनाम) is a sacred Hindu text from the Brahmanda Purana which lists the thousand names of the Hindu mother goddess Lalita Devi, a manifestation of t ...

stotramu * Haravilasa *

Śukasaptati Śukasaptati, or ''Seventy tales of the parrot'', is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are supposed to be narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story every night, in order to dissuade her from ...

(1951) *

Parijatapaharanamu ''Parijatapaharanamu'' (parijata+apaharanamu) (lit. the purloining of the Parijata tree) is a Telugu poem composed by Nandi Thimmana. It is based on a story from '' Harivamsam''. The story is about love quarrel between Krishna and his consorts Ru ...

(1933 and 1960) *

Kasikhandamu Kasikhandamu (Telugu: కాశీఖండము) is a Telugu literary work by 15th century poet Srinatha. It is composed in a poetic form of Prabandha style with strict metre. The main subject is the profile of Kasi or Varanasi, extracted mos ...

(1914 and 1917)

References

External links

Vavilla press in The Great Indian patriots by P. Rajeshwar Rao.

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