Indians invented the zero, no! So, we have not only equivalents to millions and billions and trillions but even .įor instance, 10*7 is called koti. ![]() And stories from Ramayan and Mahabharat that stuck.Īnd then the numbers. Then PBS led to children's stories and fables from Panchatantra. That is what happens when you learn something you like as a kid. Even now I ask Telugu pundits to give me a theme and challenge them that I can come up with an impromptu Aaata Veladi with the correct prosody in ten minutes. By the way, I mastered the prosody of a simple 4-line stanza called Aata Veladi. It had simple words and poems which we were asked to memorize. Thereafter PBS evolved into several streams. ![]() It had more than 50 alphabet and a thousand weird conjuncts. It started with the Telugu script, which, like that of any other Sanskrit-based lipi, is a terror. Our PBS was slim enough at around 100 pages. In that sense, the title: PBS was like any Almanac (Panchangam or Panjika). Since then hundreds of PBSs have appeared in print.we as a nation didn't have a copyright convention those days. The first printed PBS is reputed to have appeared in the 1850s, a good century before us. ![]() The first encyclopedia we were asked to buy was the famous Pedda Bala Shiksha (PBS.Big Kids Trainer.big Trainer not big Kids).
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