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PREFACE
DR VV 1. NARASIMHA RAO, MA PhD
The Government of Andhra Pradesh took up foi consideration the question of publication of the vanuse nipis on a youety oi subjects keeping in view the cultural heritage of the country from this point of view, Holy Scriptures, literary works 19 poetry and piose, yammar, piosody, and poetics and inscriptions of historical and literary importance weie chosen foi publication The Andhra Pradesh Government Oriental Manuscuipts Library and Rescurch Institute has already biought oui ten publications in Sanskrn, Hindi and English languages These publications ac allustious ol the intentions of the Goveinmert Some bare un published works from the treasure of the Urdu, Azabic anci Persian sections of this Manuscript Libraiy are uso undes active consideration loi publication
Of the many 1are and invaluable works taken up foi punting. the present volume is an excellent poetreal work in Telugu entitled UDAYANODAYAMU
Udayaodayamu
"Udayamodaya nu' is the eleventh publication in the series of Andhra Pradesh Government Oriental Manuscnpts Library and Rescurch Institute This is a ve unpublished Champu Prabundle of Naran Suana, i poet belonging zo the second quarter of the sixteenth century A, D The word 'Prahandha' 18 & Synonym for 'Kavya in Sanskrit In Telugu, tevolved munnly into a changu pabandia wluch means a descriplive poem with an admixture of piose During the period of Kusinnadevaraya a numbei of such descriptive poens came out Parjatapahai ananiu by Tiomana, Manuchartiamu by Peudana, Anuktamalyada by Krishnadevaraya and a number of other works composed during the sixteenth century appear in ghttering gold in the history of Telugu literature and hence the very age is called the golden age of prabandhas Udayanodayamu of Narana Surana which has not, so far, seen the light of the clay belongs to this age and by virtue of ils poctic excellence it occupies its own place m the gallaxy of the gicat champu prabundhas
Narana Surana
Surana, son of a Niyogi Brahmin couple-Nalana and Akkamba. possibly belonged to Cuddapah district. In the colophon of the poem it was made clear that the cieum of his poetry was the benevolence of Lord Iadreswara. The temple of Indreswara ts in Chintalapotturu, UP 2
