POTHANA TELUGU BHAGAVATHAM
A comprehensive Volumetric Analysys
Welcome.
Hearty welcome to taste the sweet Bhagavatha Purana Elixir of the great
poet by birth Pothana. Let us enjoy the mirth (Paramaanandam) in the Bhagavatam,
that too, in our own mother toque Telugu. Let us stroll in the universe
called Bhagavatham in search of path to the utmost reality called Mukthi
marg. This wonderful work is originally created by the great Vyasa Maharshi.
Potana Bhagavatam,
one of the excellent grandhas (books) rewritten in Telugu language,
has been a good source of knowledge for a long time. I enjoy reading this quite
often. I feel it contains a universe of Knowledge in wonderful unlimited linguistic
styles. I wanted to research on Bhagavatam to seggregate and enumerate
all possible items in the grandham. Thus analyzing in Telugu, all the
knowledge of Bhagavatam, linguistic study of the then Telugu in
somewhat similar style of bibliography. Hence, in 2007, I have done an
experimental work and published this on TeWiki (telugu Wikipedia) as “Bhavatham-Sankhaym”.
Having able to do the work using hard-copy version of Potana Bhagavatam,
I dared to take up the Comprehensive Volumetric Analysis of the great Purana,
naming the same as Bhagavatam Gananopakhayanam (telugu word for Volumetric Analysis).
Under this I am maintaining the blog “pothana-telugu-bhagavatham.blogspot.com”
and publishing skandha wise text & meanings of “Pothana Telugu
Bhagavatham” in scribd.com. For making it more user friendly and bring my
work closer to lovers of Bhagavatam and Telugu literature and
comprehensive I am trying to up load relevant file in the Blog / Sky drive of
live.com.
For
the purpose of this work, I have taken a standard windows-based PC, learnt
data-input in Telugu language - using text files (word) and spreadsheets
(excel) and started working on my above concept. This type of preparing a
comprehensive and consolidated data in an Indian language, specifically
in Telugu, is unique, innovative and without any precedence as far as I
was able to verify with the research papers published on Telugu research
papers ("Research in Telugu Language and Literature During the
Period 1988–1997: An Analytical and Quantitative Study" by Professor
Nityanandam, Osmania University et al).
This
provides the data and knowledge generated through this ongoing research oriented
work as well as to take comments from interested groups/individuals. I hope
that the data made available:
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Can be leveraged/utilised by enthusiasts and professionals alike
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The breadth and depth of knowledge contained in this book (grandham) creates
enthusiasm and interest in younger generation and emulate them to inculcate
renewed interest in Telugu language. The contents of this site
can broadly be classified
a) The Bhagavatham poems (padyagadyalu)
in textual form. For ready reference and convenience word by word meanings
(Teeka Tippani) also provided.
b) An ensemble of Explanations of
certain words / phrases, Chandassu the metering of types of poems used in the Bhagavatham
etc.
c) The Volumetric Analysis details, as
enumerated & segregated from above version Bhagavatam
Pothana retold Vyasa Bhagavatham in Andhra Bhasha in
12Skamdhas using more than 8 Lakh syllables fitted so naturally in 30 types of
linguistic styles called Padya Gadyalu. The saying that if a person doesn’t know
at least 1 or 2 poems from Pothana Bhagavatham. He cannot be considered
as Telugu person. Such is the popularity of Pothana. The Bhagavatham contains
not only moral, social value added Bhakthi stories, but also very beautiful
Sringaraadhi navarasaspuritha articles with very beautiful linguistic
prayogas like Alankaras, Sandhulu, Samasalu, in a very simple soft style called
panchadara pakam (sugar juice). The stories / article are generally having
their individual identity and readability. For example the wonderful stories of
Gazendra mokham, Rukmini Kalyanam, Bali Chakarsvarthi kadha etc. The content is
trustworthy, reliable, child safe, and is meant for self realization through
the path of god in Hindu religion. All the poems are available under గ్రంథం button
respective skamdha wise. Other items can be seen under relevant buttons.
The
Volumetric Analysis entirely depends on the text of above Poems. All the
content is in Unicode Telugu script in MS Office suit on windows platform.
Hence, it is searchable, sortable and can utilize the facilities like filter,
pivot table etc. The basic data banks of all words and their break up words
(Pada keli), all syllable (Akshara keli) as per skamdha, padya number &
name wise. For example see this computer generated pivot chart from data
prepared showing number of poems having their first letter as Shri (శ్రీ) in various Skamdhas of potana
bhagavatam.
As with any research oriented work done by single-handed
enthusiast/hobbyist, inadvertent errors might have crept-in to a fair extent. I
have tried to avoid errors through 10 - 12 times of proof-reading. Applying
fresh pair of eyes and professional knowledge can help to improve this work and
enhance the accuracy level, for which I will be ever thankful. If you are
interested, please spend your valuable time on critical evaluation of the
documents and highlight to me
Your suggestions & comments are highly solicited. For any comments, further details or references, feel free to contact me by posting comments here or on my gmail address <
