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In the parlance of modern behavioral sciences, the term self-actualization is defined as a fundamental tendency to maximum realization and fulfilment of one's potential. In the case of an artiste, this means he tends to write, compose or perform to satisfy an inner urge oblivious to the environment.
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Adibhatla Narayana Das garu, a versatile genius of all times from Andhra Pradesh. He was a poet, musician, dancer, linguist, and philosopher with an unparalleled body of work in a wide variety of subjects with great depths. A seemingly impossible feat by human effort inspiring the rest
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He felt that Edward
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The only songwriter-composer who translated into Telugu and set to music Rig Vedic hymns and the only writer-composer who composed a geeta-malika comprising 90 Carnatic ragas. As a songwriter-composer who exhaustively composed music in all the 72 Carnatic ragas he was next only to
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family. Narayana Das was a linguist with proficiency in as many as eight languages (including Arabic and
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His literary output was extensive. He wrote original Kavyas and
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Narayana Das was a scholar who had mastery over four classical languages (Sanskrit, Telugu, Arabic and
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Fusing the sister realms of poetry, music and dance he created a new art form which he called the Harikatha. Harikatha has a divine mythological core with poetry and music as the medium. Dance and histrionics form the visual expression.
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literary prize. The philosopher in him made him decline offers to be made court musician by the Maharajah of Mysore and later by the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, instead preferring an independent life lead in the service of God.
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enthusiasts to learn music from him. Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu the well-known Violin maestro was a lecturer in the college during the Pandit's tenure and succeeded him as principal.
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of Omar Khayyam (1932) was acclaimed as a rare literary feat by the literati of his times. In a rare tribute, a leading newspaper reviewed the book an editorial hailed it as
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A characteristic trait we notice in a number of instances in the life of Narayana Das is a compulsive urge to excel in everything he did. The conception and renunciation of
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Navarasa taranginhy, or beauties of Shakespeare and Kalidas, compared, criticised and translated into Telugu =: Navarasatarangini: Azzada Adibhatla Narayana Das
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