Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource

Tallapaka Pada Sahityam, acompilation of over fourteen thousand Telugu compositions is nowavailable on Wikisource. Tallapaka Annamacharya was a 15th-centuryHindu saint and composer who was renowned for singing in praise ofLord Venkateswara. The Tallapaka lineage began with him, giving riseto many bards in the Telugu language from the family. The TallapakaPada Sahityam is a compilation of three generations of Tallapakapoets: Tallapaka Annamacharya,Tallapaka Peda Tirumalacharya, and Tallapaka ChinaTirumalacharya. This compilation, published by Annamayya Library,Guntur has been uploaded by the library on Wikisource as part oftheir efforts to digitize the library archives. These lyrical works,dealing with a variety of themes, are of immense literary andcultural significance to Telugu speakers the world over.

Owing to the largesize of the file donated by the library, the works need to beseparated into 29 volumes. These separated files would be uploadedand indexed on Commons as well. A Unicode version of the work needsto be published and proofread in addition to their print version.Telugu Wikimedians are also exploring the possiblity of re-licensingrecitations of the poems by literary connoisseurs. On 9 June, an orientation of these activities was conducted for long time Telugu Wikipedia, te:user:శ్రీరామమూర్తి, who has begun publishing Unicode text and proof-reading on Telugu Wikisource.

The link to the workis here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tallapaka_pada_sahityam.pdf