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శాస్త్రులవారి శృంగారనైషధవ్యాఖ్యను పలువురు విద్యావంతులును పండితులును కొనియాడిరి. శ్రీకట్టమంచి రామలింగారెడ్డిగారు ఇట్లువ్రాసిరి.

'I suppose it is beyond question that yours forms the greatest commentary that has so far appeared in Telugu and that it will be probably a unique one of its kind for all time to come ............ to - day the Tulugu world could boast that a modern scholar has beaten the ancients at their own game in a most decisve fashion.'

గురుజాడఅప్పారావు పంతులవారు - I congratulate you on the completion of the work. It is invaluable to the student of the Telugu literature. Naishadham cannot be understood by average scholars without such a gloss as you have given. You have done What nobody else could have done so well. I am sorry that the gentlemen with whom you have chosen to throw in your lot (though you have more in common with us than with them) decided not to print my minute of dissent. There in I gave a critical estimate of the prose writers of the day and distinguished your work from that of the illiterate rabble. Your friends are never tired of singing the praises of two inferior artists like Veeresalingam Pantulu and Chilakamarti - and it is only recently there is a halting acknowledgement of your claims For the first time I boldly showed up the utter worthlessness of the prose which uncritical and unscholarly persons were blindly holding up as a