Puttaparthi Narayanacharya

Puttaparthi Narayanacharya (1914-1990) was a front-ranking classical poet, literary critic, composer, musicologist, translator and polyglot.

He has about 50 works of poetry to his credit. Considered an authority on the history and literature of the Vijaynagar period, he has written in Telugu extensively on Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam literatures. He has about 3,000 musical compositions in Telugu and Sanskrit to his credit and 200 of them have been notated by himself. He had the unique and ironic experience of having written a poetic work called "Penugonda Lakshmi" at the age of 14, prescribed as a text when he took the Vidwan examination in his thirtees. "Shivathandavam" (The Cosmic Dance of Shiva) is the most representative of his genius.

Reference

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