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Life sketch of Digumarti Hanumanta Rao freedom fighter. Digumarti Hanumanta Rao was born at Aska, 20 km form Berhampur, Ganjam District on 23-9-1890, in the well known and highly respected Digumariti family there. There does not seem to be anything remarkable of particular interest in his childhood and adolescence. He was a common normal young man with the tastes, desires and activities common to to the average middleclass young man. Howe veer, he was known for his sociability, mildness and excellent manneres. He was educated at Kallikota college and Pachiappa college,Madras.In the wake of Vandemataram movement of 1907, there was genera and political awakening in the country and many a young man was painfully aware of the appaling poverty and backwardness of the people. Infused with the nasant patriotism of the time. young hanumaanta rao resolved for himself much against the wishes of his family, to dedicate his life to the service of the Nation.he had no ambition to become a graduate, but Gopalakrishna Gokhale, to whom he approached for admission into the service of Servants of India Society at Pune, persuaded him to become a graduate, as that would ifso facts impress upon the public and intelligentsia that, though he could obtain B.A degree in 1912, he sacrificed worldly property, for the cause of motherland's service. He was the last person to be initiated directly and personally into Servants of India Society by Gopalakrishna Gokhale himself at Poona in 1912. In the summer of of the same year, he married Smt Buchikrishnamma a daughter of damerla family at Rajahmundrhy. Hanumanta Rao had very good opportunities to do ostentatious humanitarian service as Co Member of the Royapeta Branch of the Servants of India Society; his co workers were V.Venkatassubbaiah, Suryanaarayanarao and Kodandarao etc.,all eminent servants of the country. At that time he was editing the Madras Journal of Co-operation. Haanumanta Rao first came into contact with Gandhiji at the Servants of India Society when the latter, on returning from South Africa, went there to meet Gokhaleji. Thou Gokhalae very much wanted Gandhi to join the Servants of India society, and work with him, Gnadhiji could nor join the Society because some fundamental differences between the aims and objectives of the Society and his own political and social views. However Gokhaleji appreciated Gandhijis' objectives in starting satygarah Ashram. Hanumanta Rao was deeply impressed by Gandhiji's personality and Gandhiji's views. He met Gandhiji in 1915. He became a tutor to Gandhiji's son Devadas. While still a member of Servants of India Society, Hanumanta Rao visited Gandhiji's Satyagraha Asram at Sabarmati and spent there a few months. He was deeply impressed with the activities of Sabarmati Ashram. On coming back from there he tried his best to to get the Servants of India Society to accept the principles, programmes and leadership of Gandhiji but to no avail.Finaly he left the Servants of India Society and joined Gandhiji's Satyagraha Asrham. Kasturba and Maganlalji loved him as their own brother. Gandhiji soon discovered, Hanumantha Rao had already cultivated most of the vows ind virtues of a Satyagrah Asramites. His insistence absolute purity,trust,and sprit of forgiveness, and love for all, won for him a number friends. When Gandhiji commissioned and Chaturvedula Krishnaiah to start an Ashram in Andhra on the lines of Shabarmati,  some gandhiji's friends gave financial assistance. At first these friends opined that Haanumantha Rao did not seem to possess, the religious bend need for a founder. But when gandhiji told them in his characteristically brief counssel "Haanumanta Rao, I know is more spiritual than all of us". The whole council strait away voted the funds for the founding for the Ashram in Andhra Desha. Digumarti Hanumantha Rao along with his wife Buchi Krishnabayi, Chaturvedula Krishna and Kondiparthi Punnaiah as the four founder members and life trustees strted the Ashram on the banks of Pinakini river(Penna) at Pallipadu villaege about 15 km from Nellore town, a district headquarters. This was formally inagurated by Mahatma Gndhiji on April 7th, 1921. The objects,principles and programmes are identical with those of Gandhiji's Satyagraha Ashram at Shabarmati.

The Pinakini Satyagrha Ashram, at pallipadu steadily grew its activities and popularity. Mahatma was thoroughly impressed by its activities and functioning. Hanumantha Rao was a believer in Kuhnne's system of Natureopathy. He was practicing the system for maintaining health and curing diseases from quite an early period in his life., long before he came under the influence of Mahatma. In the later part of 1925 he fell a victim to tuberculous. He hope tobe cured of it by Natureopathy. Unfortunately there was some respite and he fell sic again. He was taken to Visakhapatnam where his mother and brother were. some of his close cousins were efficient Allopathic doctors working in King George Hospital.Hanumanta Rao struck to his belief in Naturepathy and refused modern English treatment. He died on 19th March 1926 in Visakhapatanm. His death was reported in Andhrapatrica a prominent Telugu daily. Mahatma gandhi in his obituary Eulogy of Hanumantha Rao, paid special tribute to his courage of conviction in sticking on to Naturopathy in the face of imminent death and in spite of expert and loving persuasion by his near and dear. Indeed, the keynote of hanumanta Rao's life was his strict and courageous adherence to his principles and convictions. He was mild, soft spoken and always and always willing to understand the other man's point of view but never yielding against any odds on what he believed to be right and the truth.writing about him after his demise Mahatmaji said that "He was a man strong and al of us have much to learn from Him." It is Said that, Hanumanta rao was the "Atma" of the Ashram and C.V.Krishna was the physical form of it. The young wife of hanumanta Rao, Smt Krishnabayi or Buchhi krishnamma lived till 1990 and looked after the affairs of Pinakini Satyagraha Ashrama, Pallipadu.