శతావధానసారము/గద్వాల
మన్మథ సం. ఫాల్గునములో గద్వాల సంస్థానములో జరగిన శతావధానములో రచించిన 57 టికి రికార్డు దొరకనందున ఒకటిమాత్రము.
రాజుగారి కుమారుని హస్తము
(Stamp of Gudwal Sama&tanam.) At the Sabha held
at
Gudwal
my
in
on
presence
th
21st
February 1896, two pandits named Brahmasree Challapilla Venkateswara Sastri Gara asd Brahmasree Divakarla Tirupati Sastry Garo, showed their skill in performing Satavadhanarn 57 persons .
'were seated
in
a row.
They began one after another
to give
The subjects pi>ets subjects on which to compose verses. each member was chosen by him then and there. Some by
the
named
of. the members asked them to compose Sanscrit verses and others Telagu, The pacdJts performed their task in the following manner.
Beginning with the
first
member they gave him
first
oherna of
the verse on the subject given by him; then proceeding to the next they gave him the first efaarzu of the verse composed on his subject
- nd
in the
same manner they gave the
to all the other
members
first
charanas of
the eerses
in the order in
which they had been given; gave the members one often another the 2nd charanttof tke verses; when this was finished they gave the members in the same order the second halves of the verses, The
after this they
verses both.
దుర్ముఖి సం. జ్యేష్ఠములో నర్సాపురములో జరగిన శతావధానములో జెప్పిన 60 పద్యములలో గొన్ని పద్యములు.
శంకరాచార్యులు.
Sanscrit and Telugn were of different metres. I was much pleased with the skill in versification and the wonderful power of memory displayed by the two Pandits,
(Stamp of Rajah
GUDWAL.
in Parshi.)
-i
9th March, 1896, J
Rajah of Gudwal S-amastan.