Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons (

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of South India ** Telugu literature, is the body of works written in the Telugu language. * Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Tel ...

: వావిళ్ల రామస్వామి శాస్త్రులు అండ్ సన్స్) is a 150-year-old Indian

publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

house. It was started by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu in 1854 in

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in a press named Hindu Bhasha Sanjeevini. Later he established Adi Saraswathi Nilayam. During his lifetime, he published about 50 important books in

and

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. His well-educated son Vavilla Venkateswara Sastrulu led the house in 1906 and actively continued the tradition and improved it greatly. He named it "Vavilla Press". It was associated with

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and Choukhamba Press of

Varanasi Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...

. He published books with perfect proofreading by the experts in the field and successfully printed in Royal, Demy and Crown sizes. He was the first to get his books bound with calico cover and glittering letters. Vavilla Press published mostly classic literature, epics, Puranas, and commentaries. They published Sanskrit text in Telugu script so that any Telugu reader person can read the ancient Sanskrit texts and study them. During his lifetime more than 900 books in Telugu, Sanskrit, Tamil and English languages were published.

Publications

This is partial list of some important publications: * Anandamatha by Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1907) * Narasabhoopaaleeyam by Puranam Suryanaraya Sastrulu (1909) * Vaijayanti Vilasamu (1909) * Radhika Santwanamu by Muddu Palani (1910) * Kavi Jeevitamulu by Gurajada Sriramamurti (1913) * Vikramarka Charitramu by Jakkana (1913) * Srimath Andhra Maha Bhagavatham by Bammera Pothana (edited by Rayadurgam Narasayya Sastrulu) (1915) * Bhadradri Rama Satakamu by

Pavuluri Mallana Pavuluri Mallana was a Indian mathematician from present-day Andhra Pradesh. He translated '' Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha'', a 9th century Sanskrit mathematical treatise of Mahaviracharya into Telugu as ''Sāra Sangraha Ganitamu'', popularly known ...

(1916) * Bhaskara Ramayana (1923) * Ramarajiyamu or Narapativijayamu (1923) * Bhakthi Rasa Shatakha Samputam (1926) * Soundarya Tilaka by Chilakamarti Lakshminarasimham (1926) * Andhra Vangmya Caritra Sangrahamu by K. Venkatanarayana Ravu (1928) * Kavitraya Kavitā Vimarśanamu by Gur̲r̲amu Vēṅkaṭasubbarāmayya (1933) * Vēdamu Vēṅkaṭarāyaśāstri Saṃskr̥ti by Gur̲r̲amu Vēṅkaṭasubbarāmayya (1938) * Vruddha Paarasharyamu by Parasharam (1940) * Barthruhari Subhashitamu by T. Benarji (1949) * Andhra Vyakaranamu by Vedam Pattabhiram Sastry (1951) * Sreemadandra Bhagavathamu by Bhammera Potha Raju (1952) * Sri Gopala Sahasranama stotramu (1955) * English-Telugu Dictionary by P. Shankaranarayana (1964) * Sri Mahabhakta Vijayamu by Sripada Subramanya Sastri (1966) * Atukuri Molla Ramayan (1968) * Kshetraya Padamulu by Muvva Goopaala * Sri Lakshmee Stotra Ratnatrayamu (1999) * Bruhatstotra Ratnakaramu (2005) * Muhuurta Darpand-amu (2005)Muhuurtadarpanamu at Internet Archives.
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Lalita sahasranama The ''Lalita Sahasranama'' () is a Hindu religious text that enumerates the thousand names of Mother Goddess Lalita, which are held sacred in Hinduism particularly in Shaktism, the tradition focused on the worship of the Divine Feminine (''Sh ...

stotramu * Haravilasa *

Śukasaptati Śukasaptati, or ''Seventy tales of the parrot'', is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are supposed to be narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story every night, in order to dissuade her from ...

(1951) *

Parijatapaharanamu ''Parijatapaharanamu'' (parijata+apaharanamu) (lit. the purloining of the Parijata tree) is a Telugu poem composed by Nandi Thimmana. It is based on a story from '' Harivamsam''. The story is about love quarrel between Krishna and his consorts R ...

(1933 and 1960) *

Kasikhandamu ''Kasi Khandamu'' () is a Telugu literary work by 15th century poet Srinatha. It is composed in a poetic form of Prabandha (Telugu), Prabandha style with strict metre. The main subject is the profile of Kasi or Varanasi, extracted mostly from ...

(1914 and 1917)

References

External links

Vavilla press in The Great Indian patriots by P. Rajeshwar Rao.

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