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Ananda Vardhan

Indian actor

Aanand Vardhan is a Telugu film actor who, as a child artiste, appeared in more than 20 Telugu films.[1][2]

Aanand Vardhan

Other namesAanand Vardhan
EducationGraduate
OccupationActor
Years active1996–2004
2021–present
RelativesP. B. Srinivas

Family

He is the grandson of the famous playback singer P. B. Srinivas.[3][4] His father is a chartered accountant. His father used to frequently tell him stories from Ramayana, so he learnt them by heart, and coincidentally started his child artist career with a role in Ramayanam. His grandfather also wanted to see him as an actor.[5]

Career

He was 4 years old when he acted in the film Ramayanam. He played the roles of Valmiki and Bala Hanuman.[5]

He made his feature film debut as a child actor in Priyaragalu starring Jagapathi Babu and Soundarya.[1] He played significant roles in the hit films Suryavamsam, Preminchukundam Raa and Manasantha Nuvve.

He acted with

11 Anandavardhana: Dhvani Theory

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ANANDAVARDHANA – DHVANI THEORY

 

The theory of Dhvani in the field of Indian Poetics is not only a contribution to Sanskrit language, but also to the Universal rhetoric and aesthetics. The theme of aesthetics is been inherited through the Natya Shastra of Bharata and has been discussed by many scholars in their works and propounded different theories too. Along with the Rasa theory of Bharata we can name such six more theories which are been originated and propagated by different authors. They are (1) Alankara school of Bamaha and Udbhata, (2) The Guna school of Dandi (though Dandi has not specially said, but his focus was more on Guna) (3) The Riti School of Vamana, (4) The Dhvani school of Ananda Vardhana (5) The Vakrokti school of Kuntaka and (6) The Auchitya school of Kshemendra. Among them Ananda Vardhana occupied a very important place, whose views have been revealed the subtleties of great poems like Ramayana, Mahabharata and opened the minds of the authors on poetics. A

Anandavardhana

PHILOSOPHER

820 - 890

Anandavardhana

Ānandavardhana (c. 820 – 890 CE) was a Kashmiri court poet and literary critic, honored with the title of Rajanak during King Avantivarman's reign. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anandavardhana has received more than 180,746 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Anandavardhana is the 935th most popular philosopher (down from 861st in 2019).

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Among philosophers, Anandavardhana ranks 935 out of 1,267. Before him are Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Antoine Berman, Leo Baeck, Azmi Bishara, John Scott Haldane, and Ervin László. After him are Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Pedro da Fonseca, Paul Janet, Richard Swinburne, Debendranath Tagore, and Robert Anton Wilson.

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