An emperor as powerful as Pulakeshi II had to face numerous struggles during his last days. His brother “Kubja” [Short] Vishnuvardhana would repeatedly rise in rebellion, Pulakeshi would quell it and forgive him—this seemed to have become the norm. However, what we notice in each such instance is simply Pulakeshi’s
ಮಾನವನ ಜೀವವಿಕಾಸದ ಹಾದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸ್ವಾದನೆಯ ಮಟ್ಟಕ್ಕೇರಿದ ಕಲೆಗಳ ಪೈಕಿ ಚಿತ್ರವು ಮೊದಲನೆಯದಾದರೆ, ಶಿಲ್ಪ ಎರಡನೆಯ ಅತಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ. ಆಯಾಯ ಕಾಲದ ಆಸ್ವಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲೀನವಾಗುವ ಗಾನ, ನಾಟ್ಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ನವನವೋನ್ಮೇಷವಾಗಿ ಸ್ಥಿರೀಕರಿಸಿ, ಎಷ್ಟೋ ಕಲಾವಿಕಾಸಗಳಿಗೆ ಚಾರಿತ್ರಿಕವಾಗಿ ಶಾಶ್ವತತೆಯನ್ನು ದಯಪಾಲಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ, ಭವಿಷ್ಯದ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಗಾನ-ನಾಟ್ಯಾವರಣದ ವಿಕಾಸಕ್ಕೂ ಉಪಕರಿಸಿವೆ. ಶಿಲ್ಪಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಾನವ ದೇಹಗಳೇ ಪ್ರೇರಣೆ ಎಂಬುದೇನೋ ನಿಜ. ಆದರೆ ಅವು ಯಥಾವತ್ತು ಪ್ರತಿಕೃತಿಗಳಾದರೆ ಚೆಲುವು ಸಾಕ್ಷಾತ್ಕಾರವಾದೀತೇ? ಇನ್ನು ನೃತ್ಯಕ್ಕೋ ಚಲನೆಯೇ ಉಸಿರು. ಆದರೆ ಚಲನಾತೀತವಾದ ನರ್ತನಶಿಲ್ಪಗಳನ್ನು
My Thread Ceremony Sri Venkatarama Bhatta urged my grandfather and my younger grandfather to perform my Thread Ceremony as early as possible. It seems he had confided thus to my grandfather: “Chechanna, my elders taught me a few letters of the Vedas. I wanted to teach it to those born in my
Sri Shivashankara Sastri On occasion, Sri Shivashankara Sastri and Pocambhatlu Narasimha Sastri would visit our home to perform Homams and other rituals. I must have seen Sri Shivashankara Sastri at least a hundred times. There was not a single time when I have not seen him wearing tattered clothes. But he
In and around the period 1907–08, Advocate Sri. D. Venkataramaiah was among the foremost public personalities in Bangalore. A road in Malleswaram has been named after him, granting eternity to his memory. Before he built a house on that road, I’ve heard that he used to live in a residential
Read the first part here. Now, a tragic episode. Sri Venkatanarana Bhatta’s wife (I think her name is Smt Venkamma. I can’t clearly recollect it now) hit upon a plan that seems bizarre. There’s a road that passes to the southern side of my house. Next to it is the Kopparam
Among what I consider my universities, one of the places was a south-facing corner-house ahead of the Sri Narasimhaswamy Temple in Balepet.[1] It may be called the birthplace of the Kannada newspaper. If Mysore were to be the United States, some wealthy person would have purchased the house, created a
When Nanjundaiah was in Shimoga, a teacher got transferred from there. He was a great scholar, highly civilised, and a tutor par excellence. He was loved and respected by all. The people of that town had organised a program to felicitate him and they invited Nanjundaiah also. He happily attended
