He was known as "Andhra Nataka Pithamaha"[citation needed] and wrote more than 30 original plays.
Avinash lost his father at the age of 16, after which he assumed responsibility for his family's welfare.
After Matriculation, he worked for some time in the Municipal High School and Adoni Taluk Office.
During the famine between 1871 and 1873, he and his friends established a society called Veera Sangam, to serve those affected.
[citation needed] Feeling slighlted, Krishnamacharyulu wrote a drama himself in Kannada Swapna Niruddhamu and staged it in 1886.
[citation needed] He took up the partly written Telugu drama Chitra Naliyam and completed it.
Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar, inspired by these dramas, established Suguna Vilas Sabha.