Culture - No Comments » - Posted on November, 19 at 5:27 pm
A tribute to Shiva, the destroyer, this festival is held on the eve of the thirteenth day of the second fortnight of Magha month. The day calls for fasting, and a sleepless vigil is observed throughout the night. People keep awake listening to stories and chanting hymns and folksongs. Temple bells ring as sacred texts [...]
Read More..>>Literature - No Comments » - Posted on November, 19 at 12:35 pm
The epic or a Mahakavya is the speciality of Sanskrit language. The tradition of the epics started with the famous epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. The classical epics continued the tradition by accepting some of the basic characteristics of the two epics.
Read More..>>Literature - No Comments » - Posted on November, 11 at 1:01 pm
The Mahabharata is one of the world’s most well known Sanskrit epics and is recognised as the longest epic-poem ever written. It is also considered to be Itihasa or history. A wide variety of folklore and literature is based on the Mahabharata. The epic at present has more than one hundred thousand verses. Vyasa is [...]
Read More..>>Culture - No Comments » - Posted on November, 5 at 10:00 pm
The first day of the Chaitra month is celebrated as Yugadi Padva, the new year’s day of Andhra Pradesh. Nature is ready to welcome the new year with mango blossoms, fresh and tender leaves and colourful flowers. According to a legend Brahma began creation on this day. Hence new ventures are started on this day [...]
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