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Rh a work entitled Indumati Parniayam or the marriage of Indumati, the daughter of a Sourastra King, this poem is comprised in one book. He wrote several descriptions of different temples of Dravidades, and died at Madhyarjumn.

 

This poet was a native of the Ceded districts and flourished in the reign of Kristna Royaloo, King of Anagoondi, he was renowned for his learning and composed a poem on the adventures of the incarnate God Rama, in three books called Ramabhudaym, the whole poem is much admired, but the part in which Rama laments the loss of his wife Seta, is particularly affecting and written with very great judgment and pathos, Ramabhadra dedicated this work to Sreram.

 

Was by cast a Kshatreya and a native of Anagondi. He was a perfect master of the Telugu dialect, and had read the productions of all the best poets who had written in that language. Venkatapati in a short time became a