శతా వ ధా స సా ర ము, ఉత్తరార్థము.
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ప్లవంగ సం!! పుష్య బహూళములో చెన్న పట్టణమున ప్రొఫెసరు రంగాచార్యుల వారింగూర్చియు, సంస్కృతపుఇన్న స్పెక్టరు ఆరో కృ కృష్ణమా చార్యులు వారింగుఱించియు నాశుగాఁ జెప్పినవి.
శ్లో॥ విద్వత్తైన సుర్లభా యడి భవేత్తే నిస్స్వతాదూషితా
స్తాదృక్షా ఆపి గర్వపర్వత శిరస్సంచారి పంచాననాః
కేం తేషాంధససంచయేన భవ తాంసర్వంచ సంపన్న మ
ప్యేకో వాపినదోష ఇత్యహమహో రంగార్యరంఘేను-దం. శ్రీ.
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TRIPLICANE. 25th January 1908.
I have some knowledge of Pandit Batavadhani Challapilla Venkata Susiri's poetic composition in Telugu, and consider thern to be of high merit. They indicate an extraordinary command of both Telugu and Sanskrit; and their linguistic agguna, and easy flow are quite striking. His power of and enjoying true poetry is also notewoutham power which m KRLS ducing as well as appreciating T i to make hima very worthy and useful teacher of telugu ta Colleges where that language and its literature are taught. He is both rational and critical, and is in no way an old-fationed Pandit
(Sd) M. RANGACE ABIYAR. Proffessor of Sanskrit and com. parative Philology Presidency College MADRAS. .
I am sincerely glad to record my impressions of M. & Ky Venkata Sastruln. I have read some of his pablished works with to less profit than pleasure. This morning he came to see me and I have spent over three houre with hiar, during wbieb ke recited to me a great toany from his large store of verses still in M. 9. form. He is one of three or They markedly display his versatile powers, four of his abilities I have come across these many years. Great as are his prodigious memory ADd the scoutariety of his extempore versitication, which many others have admiringly testified to, weat I specially Talue is his extensir , profound and accurate scholar, ship in San krit and Telugu. Such is his rast and varied learning
- in boti: these language, so lucid, simple and chaste in his siste
