Re: Funny compositions in telugu using a single letter

Sreenivas Paruchuri (sreeni@ktpsp1.uni-paderborn.de)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 11:14:09 +0100 (MET)

> asked me to compose one sentence using only a single letter
> "neenoone nee noonani, naanoone naanoonani nEnannAnA !
> ninnannAnA! ninna ninnannAnani nee nAnna nannanenu!"

It was discussed once at length on SCIT (=WETD), and you may like to browse
through the WETD archives. Here is such poem, attributed to
(tenaali) raamakRshNa kavi (aka tenaali raamalingaDu).

naani neenaanu nEnunu naani naanu
naana nEdunu ninnooni nunna nannu
nenna nunnanu ninnenna nunna naana
ninna nEnanna nunna nannenu nanni
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maapani neepanigaadaa?
paapama maa paapagaari pani neepanigaa
neepani daapani pani gada
paapani pani maani, daani pani gaanimaa!

sarisarigaa maa maanini
garimaga mari marini daani gada maga padamaa
sarigaani daani samamani
sarigaddaa gasari daanidaari gamaarii
--author unknown!

[All the above three poems are from deepaala picchayyaSaastri's _chaatupadya
ratnaakaramu_]

Regards,
Sreenivas

P.S. Syaamalaraavugaaroo! mee sarigamala padyam "chaala" goppagaa undi!!

janani saMskRtaMbu sakalabhaashalakunu
dESabhaashalandu telugu lessa
jagati tallikanTe saubhaagyasaMpada
mecchuTaaDubiDDa mElugaade?

--SreenaathuDu, _kreeDaabhiraamamu_ (??)