Veturi Prabhakara Sastri
Veturi Prabhakara Sastri was a Pundit in both Sanskrit and Telugu languages.Contribution
As a publisher and writer, he introduced to Telugu people several ancient texts, in association with Manavalli Ramakrishna kavi from prachya likhita pustaka bhandagaram. He discovered the copper scripts of Annamayya's poetry and introduced them to Telugu people. Similarly, he unearthed palm scripts of Ranganatha's Ragadalu. He published Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Charitra, Srinatha Vaibhavamu, Sringara Srinatham, Manu Charitra, Basava Puranam etc. with elaborate introductions. He translated Bhasa's Pratima natakam, Karnaabharam and Madhyama vyayogam.Vangmaya Peetham
established "Sriman Veturi Prabhakara Sastri Vangmaya Peetham" in 2007 to publish his books and research works. A life-size bronze statue of Sri Veturi was installed before the SVETA Complex in Tirupati.
