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Essay on Telugu Literature. 



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now living; as for instance ray Mends the pandits in the Court of Sudc 

 Udalut. They are Telugu Bramins and during more than fifteen years 

 have given me much literary assistance. Well aware that my statements 

 will incur the reproaches of many a half educated Sastri and self-styled 

 pandit, 1 am happy in mentioning men of such well known talents (I 

 might easily adduce many others also) as disapproving these follies. 



61. Again : — It is acknowledged that the regulations and acts of Go- 

 vernment are very ably translated into Telugu — yet they are wholly free 

 from all these elegancies of style (bandi-repha, ardha-bindu, sandi, and. 

 saral-adesam) which poor pretenders to learning timidly cultivate. If 

 such pedants are right, then the laws of the Government are written in 

 bad Telugu; because, according to their notions, nothing can be correct 

 which is easy to read. 



62. When it is considered that the reader's progress is greatly imped- 

 ed by the refinements I have described I shall appear justified in giving 

 so much space to remarks which cannot be generally interesting. 



On re-perusing the present essay I observe with much regret how 

 little advantage we can derive from the historians (so to call them) and 

 popular grammarians. With a few rare exceptions in the former class, 

 these are all unavailable to the Englishman. But if he wishes to rea l 

 the language in its perfection, to know it as the natives know it, he must 

 jjfeifiMrt to the Musarum chorus, the " Cavyamul" or favourite bards: of 

 whose popular works I propose to give a summary in the next essay. 



In that paper some selections will be given from poets already named : 

 but in the present pages I have endeavoured to compress all that preli- 

 minary information which the reader will most frequently require : u hat 

 remains, may be of slighter moment. 



SUBJECTS MENTIONED IN THE PRESENT ESSAY. 



Adharvana, section 38, Adhyatma 22, Ahobala 38, 43, Andhra Dipica, 33, 17, 

 48, AppaCavi, 39-42 Arddh anuswar, 52. Bala Saraswati, 35, Barbarisms, 41, 

 Basava 30,Bhagavat 23, Bhascara Ramayan, 20,. Bhimana, 37, Bobili, 12, Can} a- 

 ca, 30, Conceits, 21, Course for a beginner 13, 59, Desya, 41, Dialects, 10, 12, 

 Dwipada Ramayan, 19, Education 15, 16, Elision 58 eras of literature, 14, G 

 jendra25, Gentoo,33, Gita, 24, Gramya, 41, Hindustani 2, 12, Jaimini Bharat, 30, 

 Jangama, 7, 18, 30, Kasi Khand, 28, Krishn Arjuna Samvad, 24, Mahabharal 23, 

 24, Mamadi Vencaya 47—48, Musulmans, 8, 9, Nannaya Bhatt, 33, Nasal, 52 

 Niroshtha 21, Padma Puran, 27, Paucha Dabu, 30, Parvam 23, Pattabbi Ra- 

 maya, 56, Poetical Dialect, 10, Prabbulinga Leela ; 11, Prose 23, Prosody 37, 16, 

 Puranas, 18, 27, 29, 30. R; (Obsolete form of this letter,) 50, Raniabyudaya, 22, 

 Ramayan, I9 : 20, 21, 22, Regulations, 61 , Rucmini, 2a, Sabdartha Calpa V 

 55, Saivas, 7, Sanscrit, 4, 5, 15,55, Sanscrit dialect, 20, Scanda, 28, Beets ! 

 Siv'andhra, 17, 31,45, Smartas, 7, Sri' Natha, 28, Tadbhava, 41, Tatsama, 41, 

 Ticcana Somayaji, 23, Trailinga and Tiilinga, 40, Utprexa, 22, Uttara Ramayan, 

 22, Vaicriti, 38, Vishnu Puran, 27. 



