TELUGU LITERATURE : Evolution of Sathaka Form INTRODUCTION The history of Telugu literature is long and illustrious. It started from about 1050 – C.E. Nannayya was the first poet of classics in Telugu literature. He was invited and initiated by ever remembered Rajaraja Narendra (1016-1066) the king of Eastern Chalukya dynasty of Rajamahendravarm, on the eastern bank of the holy river Godavari. The king was impressed by the great epics in Sanskrit and episodes of the encyclopedic voluminous theme of the Mahabharata. He requested his poet laureate, priest, sage Nannayya to recreate it in Telugu for the benefit of common people who were not very conversant with the Sanskrit language and Vedic based eternal ‘Dharma’ embedded in it. Nannayya was too glad to undertake the rare and onerous assignment. He began rendering it, not literally only, making it an independent work; Mahabharata in...
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