Itihasa (इतिहास, itihāsa) refers to ‘epic history’ and represents a branch of Sanskrit literature which popularly includes 1) the eighteen major Puranas, 2) the Mahabharata and 3) the Ramayana. He was also known as Vedavyāsa or Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana. He is traditionally accepted as author of the vedas, the purāṇas and the mahābhārata. Brown's Telugu Grammar Second Edition.Vyāsa (व्यास, vyasa) is the author of the Mahābhārata. It will, I hope, long remain in the College Library, although, while I write, the College has been dissolved.Ĭ P.
From that time the languages of the three countries became more and more infested with foreign words the literature was, as far as possible, crushed and yet to this day every work of merit survives: these may be seen in a library which I collected, and presented to the Literary Society of Madras. 1580, when the Telugus were finally conquered. But the Musulman power had gradually increased until about A.D. Actuated by a zeal for their hierarchy, the Bramhans of former ages translated this "Iliad of India," and also the Ramayan and Bhagavat, into every language.Ībout the time when, in England, Queen Elizabeth's reign began, the Telugus were ruled by Krishna Rayalu, who patronized literature and the most eminent of the poets have sung his praises. The earliest poems and philological treatises (now somewhat antiquated) are believed to have been written in the days of this raja. That work is to this day read in every village throughout the country. He patronized the Bramhans, and in his days the first part of the Mahabharat (their sacred book) was translated from Sanscrit into Kannadi, Telugu, and Tamil metre. MCXI., about the time of Henry the First of England), took the title Betteda Vishnu Vardhana. The last of these princes, named Betteda Raya, quitted the Jaina sect, and becoming a worshipper of Vishnu (in A.D. At the date of the Musulman invasion, eight centuries ago, while Canute ruled Britain, the Telugu, Karnataca (Carnatic), and Tamil countries were ruled by "Karnataca Razulu," Kings of the Carnatic, who took the title Tribhuvana Chacravarti (or Trailokya Malla), as "Lords of the Three Realms," in which these three languages were spoken. The English Government of Madras extends over various Hindu nations, each of which has its peculiar language.