Tenalirama: Man who bring kingdom to its knees with rice and chessboard !
Witty Wednesday What is interesting fact that you can come up with seemingly mundane everyday rice and game of strategy, chess. Let me tell you this in a story. The story of a man who bring whole kingdom down on its knees, single handedly with these two things. This is one of the famous story of TenaliRama. I was watching one TV serial the other day named “TenaliRama". TenaliRama was the real person who was famous for his wits and who is protagonist in this serial. "Tenali Ramakrishna who was known as Vikatakavi (clown jester poet), was a Telugu poet who hailed from the present-day Andhra Pradesh region, generally known for his wit and humor. He was one of the Ashtadiggajas or the eight poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagar emperor. (1509–1530). Tenali Ramakrishna composed works on Hinduism. Tenali Ramakrishna was also a great scholar of several languages that included Marathi, Tamil, and Kannada."- Wikipedia As the ...
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