YAKSHAGANA UNDER TANJORE RULERS

YAKSHAGANA UNDER TANJORE RULERS.

In my visit to Tanjore in my return from Pondicherry i have a chance to visit the Famous Library there.SOME 

SNIPPETS OF THAT VISIT FOR MY 

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Royal patrons of art, their court pundits and other scholars domicile 
in the Tanjore country. 

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The Nayak Kings of Tanjore (1535 A. D. to 1670. 
A. D.) as well as their successors, the Maratha rulers of Tanjore 1673 A. D 
to 1832 A.D. were all patrons of learning besides some of them being
distinguished scholars themselves. It may be said that this collector 
represents the Southern School of Telugu Literature. The special distinction 
of this school is its originality in the production of song and drama known as 
Yakshagana. The crude Telugu drama the street play was given a literary 
status and brought on to the royal stage in the reign of Raghunatha Nayak 
and his son Vijayaraghava. A perusal of these will at once convince the 
reader that they are more original in composition and more artistic in 
representation than the present-day stage dramas which are more often 
imitations of the Sanskrit or the English Drama. Besides these Yakshagana 
there are also copies of standard Telugu works as the Mahabharata, 
Ramayanamu, Bhagavatamu and other Puranas and Kavyas. Of the Kavya 
literature some are of the Dvipada type and are not available elsewhere.