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Poets and Poetry of Medieval Telangana From Adi Pampa to Vidyanatha · The Literary Culture of the Kakatiya Court one literary tradition · many languages · Sanskrit · Telugu · Kannada · 10th–14th century CE ✍️ Poetry as royal prestige and sacred offering The source materials provide extensive details on the vibrant literary culture of medieval Telangana, documenting celebrated court poets, specific literary genres, and the evolution of poetic styles in Sanskrit, Kannada, and Telugu . From the great Kannada poet Adi Pampa (10th century) who received villages as agraharas for his Vikramarjunavijaya , to the Kakatiya court poet Vidyanatha (14th century) whose Prataparudriya illustrated poetic rules almost exclusively with verses praising his royal patron, the inscriptions reveal a world where poetry was the primary vehicle for royal eulogy, religious devotion, and literary innovation. Extraordinary forms like Niroshthya (non-labial poetry) and Band...

Name: Palakuriki Somantha or Palakurti Somanatha (1160 AD to 1240 AD) Birth Place and Residence : Palakurthi Village, Palakurthi Mandal, Jangaon District in Telangana State. Parents: His father was Siva and his mother Parvati. Teacher : Ivatuuri Somana Books : Basava Purana and Panditaradhya Charitamu. In his first book Anubhavasara in Telugu and even in his other Telugu work Basavapurana he mentions his mother is Parvati and father is Siva.  Somanatha mentions in his Basava Purana Avatarika that he was a disciple of Kattakuri Potidevara. In the Introductory passages of his Panditaradhya Charitra, Somanatha mentions that he was the disciple of grand son of  B alideva Vemaradhya.Somanatha's literary guru was Karasthali Viswanatha. Life Period of Somantha Maha Kavi Palkuriki Somanatha lived in Palakurthi between 1160 AD to 1240 AD. He was one of the most noted Telugu language writers of the 13th century. He was also an accomplished writer ...

1st Century Gunadhya  "Brihat katha" was the first known poem-story of the Telugu region. Gunadhya wrote it in the paisachi prakrit language. He belonged to 1st Century A.D.  Historian believed that he lived in the pythan region. He was a court poet of Hala, the Satavahana ruler. Original Text is not available today, it is available in the form of translations into the sanskrit language. Its  sanskrit transaltions are Brihatkatha sloka sangraham (Somadevasuri), katha saritasagaram (Somadevasuri), Brihatkatha Manjari (kshemendra) 5th Century 410 - 435 A.D : Toluchuvandru’ rock inscription found at Keesaragutta temple in Medchal-Malkajgiri is said to be dated between 410 and 435 AD and believed to be the first recorded Telugu inscription. 575 A.D  - The Kalamalla inscription unearthed on the premises of Chennakesava-Siddeshwara temple at Kalamalla village in Yerraguntla Mandal Kadapa district A.P.  is written entirely in the Telugu language and put up by R...