About this stamp
Kavi Samrat
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (10 September 1895 – 18 October 1976), hailed as Kavi Samrat, the Emperor of Poets, was born to Sobhanadri and Parvathi at Nandamuru in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh. Deeply read in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and the Ramayana and in Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, Bharavi and Bhartrihari, he taught Sanskrit, Telugu and English in several colleges.
His Works
He wrote prolifically: some 30 kavyas, 20 plays, 60 novels, short stories, essays, criticism and radio plays. His best-known works are Srimad Ramayana Kalpavrukshamu and the novel Veyi Padagalu, which P. V. Narasimha Rao, later Prime Minister, translated into Hindi as Sahasraphan.
India Post issued three ₹5 stamps on 26 April 2017 for three Telugu poets: Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Tarigonda Vengamamba and Aatukuri Molla. They were designed by Brahm Prakash and printed by Security Printing Press, Hyderabad, 301,590 of each. India Post’s list of 2017 issues shows “Tourism in India” in this place by mistake.
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