SOME OPINIONS.
J. RAMAYYA PANTULU, B.A., B.L., Chairman, Telugu Board of Studies of the Andhra University, Founder of the Telugu Academy, Retired Presidency Magistrate and Retired Member of the Legislative Assembly.
I have gone through a proof copy of the Telugu poem Kridabhiraman edited by Mr. V. Prabhakara Sastry. The edition contains more verses than the one published by Manavelli Ramakrishnakavi some years ago, and also a long preface the bulk of which is devoted to show that the poem is the work of the great poet Srinatha and not of its ostensible author Vinukonda Vallabhainatya: Both the poem and the preface contain verses which are grossly obscenc. It is therefore necessary to restrict the circulation of the book so that it may pot fall into the hands of those who are likely to abuse it. It appears that the publishers are alive to this and propose to take necessary precautions.
I am not one of those who think that obscene books should be suppressed altogether. Such books sometimes throw nuch light on the history of a people, literary, cultural and social and Kridabhiramar is one of such books.
12th November, 1928. (Sa.) J. RAMAYYA,
