Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Bālasantōsha

by Edgar Thurston

Bālasantōsha. — The Bālasantōsha or Bālasanta vāndlu (those who please children) are described in the Kurnool Manual as "ballad reciters, whose chief stories are the Bobbili katha, or the story of the siege of the fort of Bobbili in Vizagapatam by Bussy; the Kurnool Nabob's katha or the story of the resumption of Kurnool by the English; and the tale of the quarrels between Ganga and Parvati, the two wives of Siva."