Veturi Prabhakara Sastry

Veturi Prabhakara Sastri
Born	February 7, 1888 Pedakallepalli, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Died	August 29, 1950
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	India

Veturi Prabhakara Sastri (February 7, 1888 – August 29, 1950) was a Pundit (expert) in both Sanskrit and Telugu languages.

As a publisher and writer, he introduced to Telugu people several ancient texts, in association with Manavalli Ramakrishna from prachya likhita pustaka bhandagaram (library of ancient scripts). He discovered the copper scripts of Annamayya's poetry and introduced them to Telugu people. Similarly, he unearthed palm scripts of Ranganadha's Ragadalu. He published Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Charitra, Srinadha Vaibhavamu, Sringara Srinadham, Manu Charitra, Basava Puranam etc. with elaborate introductions. He translated Bhasa's Pratimanatakam, Karnabharam and Madhyamavyayogam.

Veturi Prabhakara Sastry became a spiritual disciple of Master C V V. (Canchupati Venkatrao Venkaswami Rao) on June 22, 1916

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) established "Sriman Veturi Prabhakara Sastry Vangmaya Peetam" 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.

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