![]() ![]() Briefly, the story is that there was this elephant king who, with his entire retinue, went into a lake to bathe in a jungle. In the Bhagavatha there is this tale called ‘Gajendra Moksham’. The epic also includes some stories about Vishnu, the god of whom Krishna was an avatar.Īll these famous works are translated in to Telugu by famous poets like Bhaskara (who translated the Ramayana), Nannaya, Tikkana and Errapragada (who translated the Mahabharatha) and Bammera Potana who translated the Bhagavatha. The Mahabhagavatha deals exclusively with Srikrishna his birth, how he was brought up, his education, friends, marriages and his achievements and various other feats. The story eventually culminates in an epic battle in a place called Kurukshethra, in which the evil plotting Kauravas are all killed by the virtuous Pandavas. The Mahabharatha deals with two sets of Kshatriya cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas and their fights for power, kingdom and wealth, with intricate political strategies, tricks and counter tricks on each other. As you all know, Valmiki originally wrote the Ramayana in Sanskrit and Veda Vyas wrote both the epics, the Mahabharatha and the Mahabhagavatha, involving Srikrishna.Īlmost every Hindu knows that Ramayana deals with Ram and his three younger brothers, his trials and travails and how his wife was kidnapped by Ravana and how he rescued his wife Sita by waging successful war with Ravana, killing the demon king in the process. There are three sacred books for us Hindus, called the Ramayana, the Mahabharatha and the Mahabhagavatha. I thought I will attempt to fill this gap by writing in English some interesting stories that I heard or read in my childhood. I then realized that by not being able to read and write the mother tongue (for whatever reason) these children are deprived of several beautiful stories, dramas, novels and a host of other literature. ![]() My daughter learnt to read and write Telugu only when she came back to Andhra Pradesh, when she was 14 years old. While I was residing outside India, I came to know that there are several Andhra children who did not have the opportunity to learn to read and write Telugu language, in fact, my son can not read and write Telugu. ![]()
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