About Vemana
Vemana was born in 17th century in then Composite Andhra Pradesh. He commented on many of the social rituals and processes in a meter peculiar to him. A typical padyam (పద్యము) or verse contains 4 sub-verses always ending with viswada-abhirama-vinura-vema (విశ్వదాభిరామ వినుర వేమా) or just plain vema (వేమా)! This is called makutam (మకుటం ). He was supposed to have courted death by remaining naked and entering a cave at the end of his life. It is my privilege and honor to present 2500+ verses taken from వేమన పద్య రత్నాకరము (Vemana Padya Ratnaakaramu) published by బాల సరస్వతీ బుక్ డిపో (Bala Saraswati Book Depot) and compiled by
శ్రీ బులుసు వేంకటరమణయ్య గారు (Sri Bulusu Venkata Ramanayya gaaru). My humble contribution is the translation into English.
Introduction And A Potpourri Of Selected Verses (bird's eye view)
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ReplyDeleteVemana (1652-1730)-the Radical Telugu Poet was first discovered by the French Missionary Abbe Dubois(1765-1848) and was later picked up by C.P.Brown (1798-1884) :and I guess that is how Vemana became famous among the (Telugu)Academicians..In fact Tyagaraja (1767-1847) was equally radical and 'heretical'-
ReplyDeleteTyagaraja was a contemporary of Dubois and CP Brown- and consequently ..these europeans never heard his radical out pourings;
Unfortunately, even today -Tyagaraja is conveniently ignored by scholars..consider this song by Tyagaraja; Yagnadulu sukha manu vaariki samamagnaanulu galare:it means; 'there are no bigger ignoramuses in the world than those who revel in Sacrifices that involve cruelty to life- (http://sahityam.net/wiki/Yajnadulu)
Contrary to what Dubois (excerpts given below-) has to say about all the voices of dissent coming from non-Brahmins ,on reading Tyagaraja (and Kuchipudi Bhagavatula Ramayyagaru(c.1800) -a predecessor of Tygaraja and author of Athmayagnamu-(aka Golla kalapamu) closely- we realise that active has dissent crept into the ranks of the Brahmins by mid-18th C