Tenali Rama Tales

Ramalinga Wins the War Before Drawing Swords! Rama Sastry was a renowned scholar in reasoning, logic, and grammar. A wish lied in his heart

The Rayar’s Sincerity Tested Tennalirama appeared to be very sorry one day, and the Rayar on seeing him said: “Why are you sorry? what

A Novel Mode of Painting The Rayar built a storied house in beautiful style. He than sent for a painter and ordered him to

Converting A Black Dog into A White Dog One day the Rayar was sleeping even after the fourth Nalikai from sunrise. And as it

A Wrestler Deceived There was a wrestler named Atisura. He had conquered the wrestlers of various courts and came to the kingdom of the

A Great Poet Disgrated A certain learned man composed a poem in praise of the Rayar. He has never treated Tennalirama with respect, but

An Unsuccessful Conversion The preceptor of the Rayar thought that if Tennalirama was converted into a disciple of his we would behave very respectfully

A Great Doctor of Sciences Overthrown One day a learned man named Vidyasagara versed in several sciences came to court of the Rayar. All

Profiting by the Labour of Thieves One night Tennalirama came to know that six thieves were in the back part of his house and

Bearing A Kitten The Rayar gave to each house in his town a kitten and a cow, and ordered that each kitten should be