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J. RAMYYA PANTULU, B.A., B.L.
Chairman, Telugu Board of Studies of the Andhra University, Founder of Telugu Acadamy, Retired Presidency Magistrate and Retired Member of the Legislative Assembly.
I have gone through a proof copy of the Telugu poem Kridabhiramam 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 Vallabhamatya. Both the poem and the preface contain verses are grossly obscene. It is therefore necessary to restrict the circulation of the book so that it may not 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 sometimes throw much light on the history of a people, literary, cultural and social and Kridabhiramam is one of such books.
12th November. (Sad.) J. RAMAYYA.
