Glad to see Dokka on net after long time with nice "pooraNa-s". Also it was
an excellant proposal from Kamala (and Suresh) to start a new thread
"poet/writer of the week".
> My points of difference with gurajaaDa:
> 1. He set aside the question of classic poets whose subjects were, mostly,
> 2. If, in the cited story, if the author punished the offender in the end,
I am not addressing "Nasy"gaari's points directly, but quoting about
gurajaaDa, who practised different things in life contrary to his
teachings/preachings (?) in his works.
[Note: I am not a gurajaaDa critic. I infact enjoy his works a lot.]
gurajaaDa appaaraavu "kanyaaSulkam" naaTakam dwaaraa aayana baalya
vivaahaalaku vyatirEki ani telustunnaa aayana tana iddari aaDapillala
vivAhaalu cinna vayasulOnE cESaaru. pedda kumaarte lakshmeenarasammaku
padakoNDu samvatsaraala vayasulO 1898 lO cESaaru. renDava kumaarte
konDayyammaku padakoNDu samvatsaraala vayassulOnE 1913 lO vivaaham
jarigindi. pedda kumaarte peLLi naaTiki modaTi kanyaaSulkam rachana,
mudraNa (1897) poorti ayindi. renDO kumaarte peLLinaaTiki malikoorpu
`kanyaaSulkam' rachana, mudraNa (1909) kooDaa poortayyaayi. deennibaTTi
gurajaaDa tana iddari kumaartela peLLiLLu, vaaLLu ........
gurajaaDa vaari kODalu (koDuku raamadaasu bhaarya) maaNikyamma vayasu kooDaa
peLLi naaTiki tommidi saMvatsaraalu maatramE. tana rachanala dwaaraa vyaktam
chEsina pragati bhaavaalaku apaaraavu aacharaNa viruddhaMgaa unnadani
saaraaSam.
From: chengalva raamalakshmi, _gurajaaDa apaaraavu rachanalu: bhaashaa
saahitya pramEya dRkpatham_ M. Phil Thesis (unpubl.), S.V. Univ., Tirupati,
1987.
Also quoted in: aandhrajyOti (18 Apr. 1994), _telugunaaTakaalalO streevaada
dRkpatham_ by Dr. K.V.raaghavaachaarya.
Recently Sree Bapa Rao asked about "mahishi" and "paTTamahishi". Sofar I have
n't seen any followups. Could some one pl. enlighten me too!
Regards,
Sreenivas
P.S. If you don't have RIT installed on your m/c and have difficulties
in reading long (wRITten)texts, please let me know if you have a printer
which can handle postscript files. I can send you the .ps file.