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Scholars recalled Lakshminarayana Sastry’s mastery over Telugu and Sanskrit.
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Saripalli Sita was conferred the title ‘Sastravisarada’
Rambhatla Lakshminarayana Sastry
The birth centenary of Rambhatla Lakshminarayana Sastry was celebrated last week in Visakhapatnam. The management committee of Sri Sadgurubrahma Ramadoota Mandiram in Madhuranagar headed by Ganti Narasimha murty organised the function in the temple
premises where Rambhatla delivered scores of discourses on religion and spiritualism.
Son of Vedaghanapati Bhupati, Sastry was born on December 8, 1908 at Gudivaadaagraharam in Srikakulam district. After schooling, Sastry studied Telugu and Sanskrit under the tutelage of Pappu Subrahmanya Sastry first and later in M.R. Govt. Sanskrit College, Vizianagaram to obtain PoL and M.A. degrees. After working as a Telugu pundit in junior colleges in Parvathipuram and Salur for a few years, he worked as a Telugu lecturer in Mrs. AVN College, Visakhapatnam before joining the teaching faculty of Telugu in A.U.
Even after retirement he taught Telugu and Sanskrit to graduate students in BVK College .
Called ‘Abhinava Bhatta Baana’ by teacher Tata Subrahmanya Sastry even while he was a student at the Sanskrit College, Lakshminarayana Sastry accomplished the hard task of translating Sanskrit grandhas, comment on many ancient literary works and satakams such as Nindya Nirhanam, Vikramorvaseyam, Sri Ramatatwa Rasayanam, Soundaryalahari, Vedantha Panchadasi Saaram, Kasi and Ramachandra Satakams to classically chaste prose and poetry in Telugu. He was conferred the title ‘Abhinava Bhatta Baana’ besides Panditaratna and many more. The hundreds of scholarly discourses on works of Kalidasa, Sankaracharya besides Valmiki Ramayanam and Vyasa Bhagavatham in his life time still ring the air all over the country.
Scholars G. Akkubhatla Sarma, Maddulapalli Dattatreya Sastry, Bhaskara Sarma and Vedula Kasivisweswara Rao besides Appalla Someswara Sarma spoke. Sanskrit scholar Saripalli Sita was conferred the title ‘Sastravisarada’ on the occasion.
Proposing a vote of thanks, Ganti Narasimham sought public help for bringing in print the three unpublished works of Sastry and also for instituting a memorial in his name.
A.R.S.
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