Below is the English translation of the article published with heading Saraswati

Putra.. Anandathirtha Sharma in Eenadu Telugu news paper on 18th April 2013.

The fragrance of a flower spreads around as soon as it is born. Similarly,

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma of Atmakur, from the age of 12 itself, has started

writing Poetry and books. Being a successor of great Scholars family, he has

inborn merit in the fields of Veda, Vedanta and Sanskrit Grammar, etc., With

grace of Goddess Saraswathi, he has authored many books in different languages

and also translated many books in different languages. He has been honoured by

Presidents of India, Governors, Ministers, and a large number of Scholars of

different fields.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharmas father Pandit Padmanabha Sharma was also

a great scholar in Sanskrit Grammar. Pandit Padmanabha Sharma had his

Upanayana done by Sri Madan Mohan Sharma, the founder of Banaras Hindu

University. Many great people like Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Arnold Joseph

Toynbee (Horward University Historian) visited the Vedic School Panini

MahaVidyalaya founded by Pandit Padmanabha Sharma at Atmakur.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharmas forefathers were residents of Maharashtra

and his grandfather Sri Appa Rao was a freedom fighter. Our Great freedom

fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Bala Gangadhara Tilak, Chatterji, Annie Besant,

Rabindranath Tagore used to visit Sri Appa Raos house at Madanapalli in Andhra

Pradesh. The National Anthem Jana Gana Mana, written by Rabindranath

Tagore and Vande Mataram, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, both were

written at Sri Appa Raos house at Madanapalli only.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma, born in 1946, from his childhood, has

studied Vedas, Vedanta, Sanskrit Grammar and many other works with

Sri.Yudhishtir Ji Mimamsak of Rajasthan, Dr.Kamalapati Triphathi, Sri Udayaveera

Shastry, Ramacharya Galagali, Makhdoom Hussain, and other great scholars. He

also used to play with Mr.Sanjay Gandhi at Allahabad in those days.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma, is a scholar in 12 Indian languages and also

in Latin and Hebrew languages., The book UPA SARPA MTARAM BHMIM

written by him, in Sanskrit, at the age of 12, having 200 pages, is the most

important one amongst more than 60 other books authored by him. Dr.Sarvepalli

Radhakrishnan has awarded him a cash prize of Rs.2,000/- for this book, along

with blessing him with a foreword for this book. He has also translated more than

60 books into different languages. The Motherland A Hymn of Homage, a book

written by him, has been printed for more than 20 Lakhs of copies, and

distributed. This book was read in Parliament by the then Honorable Speaker

Mr.G.M.C.Balayogi and about 600 copies were distributed amongst the Members

of Parliament. Mr.Balayogi has also honored Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma with a

letter of Appreciation. Currently he is working on his new book of about 370

pages The National Character. He has also have a good collection of thousands

of books at his library at Atmakur.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma has been honored by many great scholars

including, Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sri.B.D.Jatti, Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma,

Sri.K.R.Narayanan, Dr.Abdul Kalam, Hansraj Bhardwaj, Smt.Indira Gandhi, Sri Rajiv

Gandhi, Sri P.V.Narasimha Rao, and others.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma has received titles like Vyakarana

Vaachaspathi from Banaras Hindu University, Naveena Mallinatha from

Tirupathi Pandit Sabha, Abhinava Saayanacharya from Vedic Scholars Sabha,

Tulasi Kalpa Paadapa from Smt.Indira Gandhi, Veda Vedaanga Bhaskara from

Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma, and many others. He has got appreciations from many

scholars for the lecture he has given in Sanskrit for 48 hours and 50 minutes at

Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderbad.

Pandit Anandathirtha Sharma strongly believes that he was able to write

books in his childhood only with the blessings of Goddess Saraswathi and he says

that the words of Dr.S.Radhakrishnan and other great people are his life breath.