I have written a telugu manuscript titled Sri Bhagavata Narayaneeyamu .It has the following:
a. A telugu transliteration of the sanskrit Srimad Narayaneeyam Slokas, pada vibhagamu(verbalism-meaning in prose order) and tatparyamu(summary) of the 1036 verses.
b.Like the Srimad Narayaneeyam which addressed the Lord, my work invokes him by one of "His Thousand Names"(Vishnu Sahasra Namavali) for each sloka and is accompanied by an elaboration of their significance.
c.I have also crowned each of the 100 Dasakams with one or more poems of "Narayana Satakamu"-an enconium of the Lord Narayana in 105 verses by the great devotee poet of 15 th Century, Shri Bhammera Pothana of Andhra Pradesh . He has also composed the telugu version of Srimad Bhagavatha in 9000 poems titled the "Srimad Andhra Bhagavathamu".
d.I have defined the parallels between Srimad Andhra Bhagavathamu and each of the 1036 slokas of Srimad Narayaneeyam. The remarkable parallels between these two great works will be a gift to the world, for the continued propagation of the message of Bhakthi.
e.Apart from all these, I have also added important quotations from various sources at appropriate places to enable immediate references.
Thus, "Sri Bhagavatha Narayaneeyamu" affords a comparative study. The majority of people of Andhra Pradesh know little about Shri Narayana Bhattathiri and his great Sanskrit work. The present work will be well received in Andhra Pradesh, for I have introduced Shri Narayana Bhattathiri through Shri Pothana.
To my best knowledge, there is no similar exhaustive work on Srimad Narayaneeyam in Telugu. There is one book of Shri Kalluri Venkata Subrahmanya Deekshitulu (published by B.V.S.S.Mani, 95, Broadway, Madras, in 1977), who has translated each Sanskrit sloka into Telugu Poetry and highlighted briefly the gist in prose.
My manuscript of Sri Bhagavata Narayaneeyamu comes to 2500 pages of A4 size.
Excerpts
The Introduction
- The need for such religious literary works in the present degrading condition of our society.
- The greatness of Shri Bammera Pothana and his Sri Andhra Bhagavathamu/his place in Telugu Literature/the greatness of Shri Narayana Bhattathiri whose Srimad Narayaneeyam in Sanskrit enthralls all those to whom Sanskrit is dear.
- Vyasa Maharshi wrote Srimad Bhagavatham in 18,000 slokas. Shri Pothana expressed the same in vernacular in 9000 poems. Shri Bhattathiri presented the Divine Life of the Lord to the world in 1036 crisp Sanskrit slokas.
- Shri Narayana Bhattathiri's birth, geneology, scholastic achievements in Sanskrit/his other works/the trials that led him to compose Srimad Narayaneeyam.
- The greatness of Srimad Narayaneeyam itself.
- Sri Guruvayurappan/His uniqueness/the chronicle of Lord Krishna/the origin of the "Moola Vigraham" of Sriman Narayana present at Guruvayur.
- Anecdotes from the life of Shri Narayana Bhattathiri/a few instances of the healing powers of Sri Guruvayurappan.
- Bibliography
My Name:
Chandrasekarapuram Ananthanarayana Ramakrishnan Iyer
C.R.Ananthanarayana Iyer
Mother's Name:
C.R.Parvathi Ammal,Maatthur, Kerala
Date of Birth: 9-11-1931
Mother Tongue:Tamil
Languages Known:
Sanskrit, Telugu, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Kannada
Qualification:
B.Com. (Osmania University)
Service:
Served the Government of Andhra Pradesh in the Secretariat from 1956.
Voluntarily retired on June 30, 1984 to complete Sri Bhagavata Narayaneeyamu.
Vocations:
Study of spiritual literature in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
Comparitive study and correlating the application of devotional, Carnatic and Hindustani classical music in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil movie songs of yesteryears.
I have collected a considerable number of LP records, tapes and Indian mint stamps.
Residence:
C.A.Ramakrishnan
298/2RT, Vijayanagar Colony,
Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh-500057
India
Phone: 8413-3343907
Enquiry from Propsective publishers for this manuscript is solicited at e-mail: crjay@eth.net
