Usage of `boochi' by Soorakavi.

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03 Nov 95 10:04:22 -0800

I am inclined to think that `pooci' and `boochi' are
related. One could have been derived from the other.

As for the usage of the word boochi in poetry, I am
showing hereunder one `chatuvu' from ADidam Soorakavi.

I think he has lived in the late 18th century. Please
correct me if not so.

First context of the poem. One day, the wife of Surakavi
asked the poet that she wishes the father to do some
poetry in prise of their son. The poet, picked up the
uglyness of his son BaalabhaskaruDu and recited the poem:

Kandam:
boochaa? boochula lOpala
baachannE pedda boochi, panDlun daanun;
boochanina ratri veraturu
baachannanu joochi pagalE veratur.

Needless to say, this displeased the mother.

I read this and many other things about the fine poet
Soorakavi in a biography written by one ADidam Raamaaraav (to
the best of my grey cells ) and published by Vavilla.

One important reading from the above poem. This shows boochi
in a context `ghost' or similar. Not some awkward creature
or insect. As per the poem, the appearance of boochi must have
human form.

-Syamala Rao. (Nov 3.1995)