visakhapatnam telugu poet dr kavuri srinivas who is also the direct descendant 13th generation of the famous 15th century telugu poet srinatha has discovered nearly 200 palmleaf ancient literary works of various ancient poets srinatha is renowned as the kavi sarvabhouma king of poetsthe works and their poets belonged to the period from 9th to 16th century all these poets hailed from the two telugu speaking states andhra pradesh and telanganaafter discovering those palmleaf works penned in various ancient languages like pali and brahmi from the heritage buildings and old generation people of the districts like guntur kadapa and medak in the states srinivas decided to translate them into telugusrinivas took the decision to introduce the valuable ancient literature to general public and for next generationspeaking exclusively to toi srinivas who bagged five phd awards for his works on the ancient literature said that he need at least rs 30 lakh to take up the mammath task so he met the officials concerned in the department of culture of both union and state governments to financially support himi met the cultural minister bhuma akhila priya in the andhra pradesh apart from her counterparts at the centre and telangana the minister responded positively to help financially for his work the governments assured me to grant nearly rs 30 lakhs in phased manner to translate all the 200 palmleaf ancient literary works into telugu for publishing books srinivas addedsrinivas said that some of the palmleaf literary works include sarveswara mahatyam sivadheeksha bodha niyamavali written by madupati nagayya in the 17th century another poet kavi sharabhankudus sarabhanka linga satakam and dakshayagna varnana found in the period of 13th century poet shadaksharudus sivaratna kandamala bhairavananda swamys rahasya ayurveda sastram during the period of 14th century etcsrinivas said that all the 200 palmleaf literary works were written by nearly nine sanskrit poets six telugu poets and eight ayurveda vydya vidwansmadhya pradesh government also invited me to translate an ancient literary work on tantric mantras found in the palmleaf works srinivas said while adding that he is willing to translate his great grandfather srinathas originals preserved at saraswathi mahal library or tanjore maharaja serfojis sarasvati mahal library tmssml at thanjavur in tamil nadu and foreign countries like france