About this stamp
Poet of Tirumala
Tarigonda Vengamamba (20 April 1730 – 21 August 1817) was born at Tarigonda, in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, and grew up singing hymns at the village Narasimhaswamy temple. Married at eight, she declared that Lord Venkateswara alone was her husband, and after her husband’s early death refused to live as a widow. Taught by Acharya Subrahmanyudu, she became a yogini and moved to Tirumala.
Her Works
Without schooling she became a great poet. She wrote yakshaganas such as Vishnu Parijatham, Chenchu Natakam and Rukmini Natakam, a Sri Bhagavatham, the Tatva Ramayanam in dwipada, keertanas and the Vashista Venkatachala Mahatyam; her works were written on thousands of palm leaves.
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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