I am glad to submit this report on THE THEORIES OF TELUGU GRAMMAR to Prof. V.I. Subramoniam, the Honorary Director of ISDL, who honoured me with this assignment to complete it as a Visiting Fellow of telugu at ISDL.
I do not prefer the term 'History' in the title of the work in cognizance of the never-ending disputes and arguments about the authorship and the age of the first two ancient grammatical treatises written in Sanskrit verse. These are descriptive gram-mars and the authorship and age are of little value. I have there-fore tried to interpret them, Schools of telugu Grammar, such as traditional, non traditional, mixed-traditional, modern, historical etc., on the basis of their approaches and treatments.
I have avoided foot-notes as far as possible, lest the smooth running of the critical interpretation is hindered.
A comprehensive descriptive grammar of the ancient and modern telugu, with the whole gamut of general linguistics is the urgent need, indeed. I hope the International School of Dravidian Linguistics would soon undertake such projects for all the cul-tivated Dravidian languages.
I thank my friend, Mr. J. Venkateswara Rao, M.A., LL.B., a busy official, yet an ardent student of telugu grammar, for his keen interest in the completion of this assignment. He placed before me, the recently published telugu grammars, to make my work up-to-date.
I also thank my young friend Mr. A.Ch. Appala naiDu, the telugu research fellow at ISDL., for his close association with me, when I was there. Finally I convey my kind regards to Prof. V.I. Subramoniam, the beloved son of the Dravidian Muse, and my teacher at summer schools, for giving me this opportunity to renew my studies in grammar and for his deep concern to intensify research in telugu at the ISDL.
"eeka ssabdah samyak gnaatah sushTu lookee kaamadhuk bhavati (Patanjali)
"The word which is fully comprehended and aptly used gives the pleasure of drawing milk from the wish-yielding cow in heaven".
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