Person · Telugu court poet · India
Madayyagari Mallana
Also known as Madayyagari Mallana, Mallana, Rajasekhara Charitramu
One of the Ashtadiggajas, author of the Rajasekhara Charitramu, a prabandha on a king of Avanti, dedicated to Nadindla Gopa, Krishnadevaraya's governor at Kondavidu and a patron of Telugu letters in his own right. He is the Ashtadiggaja whose work is addressed to a provincial officer rather than to the emperor.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Confidence
- Not assessed
- Location
- 15.335, 76.462
Worth knowing
That dedication is the useful detail: literary patronage at Vijayanagara was not concentrated in the capital, and governors ran their own circles. Almost nothing of his life is recorded beyond the poem's own colophon, which is true of most of the eight.
About the place
Placed at Vijayanagara, the court he belonged to; the Ashtadiggaja poets are known by their works and their patron rather than by biographies.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Madayyagari Mallana”. Madayyagari Mallana, Rājaśekhara Charitramu; Velcheru Narayana Rao, Text and Tradition in South India (2016).
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