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by GuiA 3969 days ago
I always found those super tacky. I wonder if it'll get posted on Hacker News in the year 5015 as an example of brilliant 21st century poetry. I also wonder if Venkatadhvari's contemporaries found him to be tacky.
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From a different comment in this discussion:

> They were a whole genre of poems called "adhama kavyas." Literally, in Sanskrit, it means 'inferior poems'.