Korada Ramachandra Sastry
Telugu poet and translator of Venisambharam
About Korada Ramachandra Sastry
Lived 1816 – 1897 (aged 80–81). Korada Ramachandra Sastry was an Indian writer, poet and playwright.
Korada Ramachandra Sastri (12 October 1815 – 11 August 1900) was an Indian poet and playwright in Sanskrit and Telugu. He was the first known original Telugu playwright. His Manjarimadhukariam is the first Telugu drama with an original concept. His Sanskrit lyric poem Ghanavrttam is a sequel to Kalidasa's Meghaduta. Ramachandra Sastri authored more than thirty works in Sanskrit and Telugu but only a few books are extant. His books give us an appreciation of the advanced poetic and linguistic aspects of his literary works.
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Who was Korada Ramachandra Sastry?
Telugu poet and translator of Venisambharam
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Korada Ramachandra Sastry was born in 1816.
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Korada Ramachandra Sastry died on 6 June 1897.
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Korada Ramachandra Sastry was a writer, poet and playwright.
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Korada Ramachandra Sastry was Indian.
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