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The ‘International ‘Satavadhanam’’ program was launched virtually by the Vice President on Nov 5, 2020.

About Avadhānaṃ

• Avadhānaṃ is a literary performance popular from the very ancient days in India.
• Avadhānaṃ originated as a Sanskrit literary process and is revived by poets in Telugu and Kannada in modern times.
• It involves the partial improvisation of poems using specific themes, metres, forms, or words.
• The Avadhanam event showcases, through entertainment, of superior mastery of cognitive capabilities – of observation, memory, multitasking in multiple modes of intelligence – literature, poetry, music, mathematical calculations, puzzle solving etc.
• Avadhāni refers to the individual who performs the Avadhānaṃ; one of the many individuals asking questions is a Pṛcchaka (questioner).
• The number of Pṛcchakas can be 8 (Aṣtāvadhānaṃ) or 100 (Śatāvadhānaṃ) or even 1000 (sahasrāvadhānaṃ).

Our mother tongue is our wealth. Writers, poets, linguists and others should put greater efforts to preserve our heritage and pass it on to future generations.

Language is not just an expression of emotion, the language conveys a person’s nationality and cultural heritage. Stressing the need to preserve and nourish one’s mother tongue, he said that it was important to accord respect to all languages. 

Source: RsTV