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other Literatures. I am not at all sure that Peddanna would be the worse for a comparison with his contemporaries elsewhere in this respect. An honored poet of an oriental Court, a too frequent witness of groups of handsome slave-girls (dasies) without much of matronly decorum or of maidenly bashfulness, he might be easily led into these and the like descriptions; and if indulgence in them was neither resented nor found to prove repugnant, the tendency would gain encouragement and strength, without any personal predilection in the author and even despite personal distaste. To impute such a personal predilection to peddanna would be to do him an unmerited wrong
Now to Bhattu Murthi. Before going to him, let me promise that peddanna possessed a Vast amount of erudition and a keen sense of grace such as befitted a poet laureate-a place of honor which be enjoyed and richly deserved, and that this best known work perhaps the only one known-- is not without a considerable share of the sort of apostrophes, moliloquies and other figures of speech which constituted and will always constitute a permanent element in Telugu Literature. But he lacked a power (not a defect surely) in which Bhattu Murthi was without an equal and by which he took the cultured and the unlearned alike by storm. While Peddanna---refusing recognition to Sreenatha in paying the wonted tribute to early writers seemed to derive picture in
