Thalaari Ranga Daas
Around the later half of the eighties,last century, one fine morning, a little boy started for his school, armed with his slate and ,pencil.. An old ox somehow got into a bad temper, ran berserk, and charged at little Ranga...for that was the little boy"s name..That ox was said to be alive till just fifty years back and used to rest before the Ramalingeswara swami temple at Robertsonpet...He tried to dodge the oncoming fury but the feeble thread that bound his knickers went phut, hindering his steps and the poor boy fell down flat on his face.. As the ox rushed in throwing it"s horns, a shocked Ranga gave one hoarse cry calling out Anna'..The ox stopped in mid- charge,threw it"s head back and said to have mooed in a good humour and Ranga burst out in to a fit of laughter....and kept laughing all his life.....
From the day onwards, Ranga was lost to this world....May be doctors, today would call it as after shock....He never talked or went home and kept laughing, dancing and roamed along the streets, distributing sugar cubes which he seemed to get out of nowhere.....His father, one Subbayya, daily used to bring in food everyday and would cajole the boy to eat some...Ranga would accept just a fistful...
Once Ranga met Sri Mutnuri Gopal Das, a saintly person himself,.He jumped up at the sight of the elderly man and broke in to an intense spell of laughter and dancing..It was said that jasmines fell in a rapid shower from the sky at this rare meeting...As fragrant and short lived as the jasmines, Ranga,just twenty five year old,..slid out of this life , ...on 4 th December, 1905.....His tomb is stated to be situated before the Machilipatnam railway station...
ref; Machilipatna charithra
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From the day onwards, Ranga was lost to this world....May be doctors, today would call it as after shock....He never talked or went home and kept laughing, dancing and roamed along the streets, distributing sugar cubes which he seemed to get out of nowhere.....His father, one Subbayya, daily used to bring in food everyday and would cajole the boy to eat some...Ranga would accept just a fistful...
Once Ranga met Sri Mutnuri Gopal Das, a saintly person himself,.He jumped up at the sight of the elderly man and broke in to an intense spell of laughter and dancing..It was said that jasmines fell in a rapid shower from the sky at this rare meeting...As fragrant and short lived as the jasmines, Ranga,just twenty five year old,..slid out of this life , ...on 4 th December, 1905.....His tomb is stated to be situated before the Machilipatnam railway station...
ref; Machilipatna charithra
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