Re: 'mahaakaavyaalu'-'mahaakavulu' -Reply
Mohan Parigi (parigim@STATE.MI.US)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:54:51 -0400
Ari Sitaramayya wrote:
>But when you (I don't mean you personally;
>anybody for that matter) say that there are five
>mahaakaavyas in Telugu, it sounds like a mafia
>group again! How can there be only 5? What if
>somebody writes a great book next year? Who
>decided that there are 5? Hope these are not the
>Lakshanikas again!
Even I wondered about this always. What is the
criteria ?
In his preface to EMESCO's Manucaritram,
Viswanatha says epics like bhaaratam and
raamaayaNam may enrich your knowledge about vedic
traditions but not telugu language. If one has not
read manucaritram, he says, one cannot claim to
know telugu well.
This is a clear distinction, BUT isn't
manucaritram highly sanscritized also ?
Madan Mohan