Re: a folk tale-'anaganagA oka rAju!

vissa@cortex.neuro.mssm.edu
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 11:50:12 -0500

>anagaa anagaa oka raaju.
>
>Friends: This is a tale, many of you heard in some form or the other when you
>were young. Could you recall your version? Would you share it with me and the
>othr members on the list? Even if the version should change in one word, or
>a phrase, or it is told very differently, with a whole differnt set of
>sentences,it would be fun to hear it again. This perhap the first tale that
>every Telugu child heard, and in some real sense, reflects the Teluguness in
>all of us. Incidentally, are there other language versions of this tale?
>p.s. Please tell the tale in your version, completely.
>
>Thanks.
>
>VNR

Hello Sir!

Nice to see someone still remembers it. Of course, it is true, I think,
many of those tales still haunt many people. Here is my complete version.
Whereever, it was different from your version, I underlined it.
(There may be little bit of mix ing of your way and my way of RIT writing
of Telugu. Please bear with it.)

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anaganagaa oka raaju.
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aa raajuki eeDuguru koDukulu.

eeDuguruu koDukulu veeTaku veLLaaru.
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eDu ceepalu teccaaru.

enDabeTTaaru.

anduloo oka ceepa enDaleedu.

"ceepaa! ceepaa! enduk'enDaleedu?"

"gaDDimOpu aDDa mocchinadi."
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"gaDDi mOpA! gaDDi mOpA! enduk'aDDa moccinaavu?
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"aavu nannu mEyalEdu."
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"aavA!, aavA!, enduku mEyalEdu?"
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"gollavAdu nannu mEpalEdu."
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" gollavAdA! gollavAdA! enduku mEpalEdu?"
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"avva buvva peTTaleedu?"
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"avvA! avvA! enduku buvva peTTalEdu?"
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"pillavADu EDcinaaDu."
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"pillavADA! pillvADA! enduk'Edci nAvu?"
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"cIma kuTTinadi."
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"cImA! cImA! eMduku kuTTinAvu?"
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"nA bangAru puTTalO vElu peDitE, nEnu kuTTanA?"
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With regards,

Prabhakar Vissavajjhala, Ph.D.
Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029