Rama quickly picked up his clothes and hid behind a rock. Tenali Rama ran away and as he neared a clump of trees, he saw Tathacharya walking to the nearby pond for a bath. “YOU THERE… off you go… knows the royal priest it seems!” “Let me check!” the guard said, going inside.Ī moment later, he came waving a stick. Within a few days, Tenali Rama set out for the capital city with his wife and his mother.Ī few weeks later, Tenali Rama went to Tathacharya’s house. “All right, when you happen to be in Vijayanagara, meet me…!” said Tathacharya, walking away. Tathacharya was getting annoyed and thought (in his head), ‘Im-per-ti-nent fool, how dare he?’īut, he only said, “You seem to be a learned scholar… what’s your name?” “I have a childhood dream, your highness, of being part of the King Krishnadevaraya’s court in Vijayanagaram…” “There lad, what is that you want?” the royal priest asked. On meeting Tathacharya, Rama said, “O’ honourable guru of King Krishnadevarayalu’s court, I bow to you.”
One day when Ta-tha-char-ya, the king’s guru and chief priest, was visiting the temple in the nearby village, Tenali Rama immediately set out to him. Now, he always wanted to be part of King Krishna-deva-raya’s court! Before her parents could say a word, she began:Ī long time ago, long before today, Tenali Rama or Tenali Raman (some even called him Tenali Ramalinga, while some Tenali Ramakrishna) lived in a village near Tenali and away from the capital, Vijayanagara. “He was the vikatakavi (vi-ka-ta-ka-vi), a court jester, of King Krishnadevaraya… Wait, I will tell you more!” said the girl.Īs Ma and Pa settled down, she wrapped a towel around her head. don’t… know… whotenalirama is?” asked the girl, breathlessly.
“Who?” asked Pa, just as the bouts of laughter ended. Ma rolled her eyes and read the title of the book: “Tenali Rama Stories….” “Oi, what are you laughing about there?” asked Pa. Suddenly, she started to laugh non-stop as if someone were tickling her. Once upon a not-so-long time, there was a girl who giggled - a short giggle, followed by quite a long pause, and then a short giggle.
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