STUDENTS SHOULD DO MORE RESEARCH ON VETURI WORKS-MUKTHESWARA RAO

Tirupati, 8 February 2016: TTD Special Officer of All Projects Sri N Muktheswara Rao advocated that students should do extensive research on eminent scholar Sri Veturi Prabhakara Shastry.

Addressing the special programme on the occasion of 128th Birth Anniversary celebrations in Annamacharya Kalamandiram, he said, the astounding accomplishments of Sri Shastry in the 29 years at Government Manuscripts Library has landed him the job of the Head of Telugu departments at the Sri Venkateswara Oriental Research Institute and the Oriental College in Tirupati.

His vast research helped to bring out to lime light the great known and unknown Telugu works on palm leaf manuscripts. The devotional and religious literature on Sri Venkateswara, including the greater part of kritis of Tallpaka poets, which have become so ubiquitous today, was all because of his resolute lead and determination. The students should do more and more research on this great scholar”, he observed.

Renowned Scholar Sri Medasani Mohan, DyEOs Sri L Vijayasaradhi, Smt Sharada and other prominent literary persons were also present.