Jandhyala Papayya Sastry - An eminent Telugu Writer

Jandhyala Papayya Sastry is an eminent Telugu Writer and Lyrist. He was popularly known as Karunasri. He is a famous Poet and very good speaker. His popular writings “Pushpavilapam”, Udayasree, Karuna sree and Vijaya sree.

He was born in Kopparru village of Pedanandipadu Mandal in Guntur District on 4th August 1912.After primary and middle school education, he has learnt Sanskrit kavyas from Bhamidipati Subramanya Sharma and Kuppa Anjaneya Sastry. After completing Ubhaya Bhasha Praveena he has worked in Ramakrishna Vidyapeetham, Amaravathi, Stall Girls High School, Guntur. He has worked as Telugu lecturer for 20 years in Andhra Christian College, Guntur. He used to recite poems so expressively.
He wrote about 76 works. He saw the plight of a scavenger girl and wrote Paaki Pilla (1928) at the age of 16 years. His other works are Omar Khayyam, Aruna Kiranalu, Telugu Baala and Kalyana Kalpavalli. Karunasri was born out of his stream of his thoughts when he visited rare Buddhist sculpture, Maha Chaitya and pillars at Amaravati. His Pushpavilapam was born out of his anger towards a visitor, who began eating the petals of a rose from the flower vase on the table, while the poet had been in his prayer room. His compositions are timeless, they move the soul. The language is very simple and any common man with basic understanding of the Telugu language can easily understand the depth of his expression. Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao rendered his Pushpa Vilapam and Kunti Kumari. The lyrics and Ghantasala's voice really makes one cry with pity.
He has acted as Mukku Timmana without make-up in Bhuvana Vijayam during Ugadi celebrations. He is married to Anasuyamma. They had two sons and a daughter.

He has acted as Mukku Timmana without make-up in Bhuvana Vijayam during Ugadi celebrations. He is married to Anasuyamma. They had two sons and a daughter.

His literary works
1. Paakee Pilla (1928) 2. Pushpa Vilapam
3. Kunthi Kumari 4. Karunasri
5. Karunamayi 6. Guru Dakshina
7. Chandamamalo Kundelu (children stories) 8. Mahathi
9. Adikavi Valmiki (children stories) 10. Bhageerathudu (novel)
11. Udayasri 12. Vijayasri
13. Naluguru Mitrulu (novel) 14. Vasantha Sena (novel)
15. Omar Khayyam 16. Prema Moorti
17. Aruna Kiranalu 18. Indra Dhanussu (children stories)
19. Bangaru Padmam (drama) 20. Mandiram
21. Swapna Vasava Datta 22. Telugu Baala (Neeti Satakam)
23. Tenugu Sethu 24. Kalyana Dampatulu (children stories)
25. Kalyana Kadambari 26. Kalyana Kalpavalli
27. Veera Bharati 28. Udaya Bharati
29. Sai Sudha Lahari (kavyam) 30. Charumitra
31. Bala Bharati (children stories) 32. Akashavani Lyrical dramas

Awards
He was awarded Honorary Doctorate from Sri Venkateswara University [Tirupati, Kakinada].

External links
Listen to Pushpavilapam by Ghantasala in Youtube.com

Information Source from :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandhyala_Papayya_Sastry
http://guntur.ap.nic.in/statistics/eminents.pdf