Monday, December 7, 2009



trusciencetrutechnology@blogspot.com Volume 2009-2010 Issue No.11, Dt. 30th Nov.2009 the 70th B’Day Volume of Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
APPRECIATION OF PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT TRADITIONAL SKILLS AND ARTS IN SILPA RAMAMA, HYDERABAD
Boddu Gopala Rao PADMASALEE

Boddu Gopala Rao by traditional ancestry is a padmasalee i.e. he belongs to a weaving community which was one of the most outstanding trades of India and achieved world trade excellence during the era 3000BC to 2000AD. He wants to appreciate the effort of preservation of knowledge of Ancient Traditional skills and arts, by the exhibition and excellent photographs, in SILPA RAMAMA in Rangareddy district near the Hi-Tech city of Hyderabad. He recommends that everyone in India must visit the SILPA RAMAM. He is thrilled how ancients have used rocks to produce fire and sustained it to burn by dry wood and leaves etc.
He is a resident of Nethaji Nagar, Kottur-Parlkamid of Srikakulum, Andhra Pradesh. Has three son-in-laws each respectively earning Rs 10,000, Rs.6000/- and Rs.6000/- He is very much contented with this income of his joint family. He struggled hard to keep up the ancient trade of selling cloth of his forefathers but in-vain. He lost one brother and other doesn’t go with him. So he is left with his family of three son-in-laws who are very fond of him. He tried the cloth sales but left the business and struggled hard with a variety of menial jobs to raise his family of three daughters. Presently works as a lifter of the loads of cement mixed small stones for laying the concrete roads at the age of 74years.
He is strong and has no complaints of cough, cold or any fever during the last 8 years. He attributes this outstanding health condition due to the TRADITIONAL AYURVEDIC medicine he had 8 years ago. The medicine is known as the VASANTKUSUMAKARAMLEHYAM. He got it from Parlakimidi Ayurvedic doctor R. Veer Bhadrayya. He took only a forefinger tip hold medicine daily for about 40days the stipulated dosage by the Ayurvedic doctor and it seems after a lapse of eight years he needs to repeat the dose of the medicine. He is very friendly with all the sellers of the medicinal root and plant material in the Parlakimidi market where people from Visakhapatnam and Srikakulum purchase them to prepare Ayurvedic medicines. His son-in-law told that there is a big sale centre at the Bus stand of Vijayawada towards the Railway station of these medicinal plants. Also the Forestry dept horticulture farm in Visakhapatnam sells these cultivated medicinal plants. It is not uncommon to see people picking up the leaves etc. even to-date some medicinal plant material for quick and immediate treatment. They don’t go to doctors either to stand in que or to pay the admission fees to meet the Doctors of Allopath.





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