Chetty Bhanumurthy

Studies In 1915, Bhanumurthy discerned his avocation towards priesthood and decided to study for ministerial formation at the Serampore College, Serampore, a constituent college of the nation's first university. Bhanumurthy studied up to 1918,

Bhanumurthy taught at the Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary in Ramayapatnam The Old Testament scholar, Victor Premasagar, was also enthused by the lyrical content in Bhanumurthy's compositions, especially Hymn Number 94 titled Yesuku Samanulevaru (Translated Who is equal to you Lord?) with direct reference to Psalm 71:19 and strikingly similar to Tyagaraja's composition in Kharaharapriya. Dayanandan Francis brings Bhanumurthy in the line of another Hymn writer, Puroshottam Choudhary and writes:

Roger E. Hedlund, the Missiologist writes that along with the Bible, the Christian Hymnal in Telugu also forms the main bulwark of Christian spiritual life for the Telugu folk and of equal use to both the non-literates and the literates as well. In such a context, it is noteworthy that sixteen of Bhanumurthy's compositions are found in the Christian Hymnal in Telugu with the following sequence:

9, Stuti Geethamu,