Anga Vidya or Instant Astrological Forecast (Kadalangudi Publication)

How true these words of Shakespeare in the mouth of Julius Caeser were in the case of Revered Pandit Brahmasri Kadalangudi Natesa Sastri. Here was a valiant man who braved poverty, braved the ridicule of the atheists; braved the obstruction of the orthodox, and the prejudice against Sanskrit, and with unique and single minded devotion rendered a signal service in the spread of the supreme Bhaaratiya wisdom.

Revered Pandit Kadalangudi Natesa Sastri, whose birth centenary was celebrated in 1978, had a great share in the religious and cultural Renaissance since his main work was in bringing the valuable treasures enbedded in the ancient literature to the attention of the general public and making them available in a language understood by the layman. It is an evidence of the broad culture and a significant sign of the changing times that he put before one and all without distinction of caste or community of religion, Vedic Madras such as the Taitreeya Aaranyakam. He had dedicated his life to this noble cause by translating the almost entire religious classics into Tamil and publishing more than 50 books along with the original texts in Devanaagari script.