Re: "dESabhaashalandu telugu lessa"?
Venkat Chalasani (chalasan@bc.edu)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:27:17 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Hi,
Also to be noted, i guess, is that telugu was not krishnadevaraya's
mother tongue. i cannot quite remember the language now.
- venkat
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, V. Chowdary Jampala wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Vennela wrote:
>
> > Q: "dESabhaashalandu telugu lessa" ?
> >
> > Many non-telugu friends labelled it as chauvinism.
> > Could some one elaborate? or provide references?
>
> Of course, it is chauvinism :)
> But, that's OK; it's about our language; it's good for our
> collective self esteem and doesn't hurt anybody else (they don't
> understand Telugu anyway); and it offers great potential for parodists.
>
> There are two poems with the above line as far as I know: the
> aforementioned Sreenaadha/vallaabhaacharya one and another by Srikrishna
> Devaraya. The latter was defending his choice of Telugu to write his
> aamuktamaalyada. You can take the latter as a special complement to Telugu
> as he had at least one other regional language to choose from (Kannada),
> and is probably proficient in the dEvabhaasha too.
>
> Regards -- V. Chowdary Jampala
>
>