Person · Telugu court poet · India
Nandi Timmana
Also known as Nandi Thimmana, Mukku Timmana, Parijatapaharanamu
One of the Ashtadiggajas, presented to Krishnadevaraya by the emperor's wife Tirumala Devi as part of her dowry from Nandyala. His Parijatapaharanamu retells the episode in which Krishna gives the parijata flower to Rukmini and has to answer to Satyabhama, and it is the most performed of the eight poets' works.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Confidence
- Not assessed
- Location
- 15.335, 76.462
Worth knowing
The poem is traditionally said to have been written to reconcile the emperor with a queen he had quarrelled with, which makes a domestic argument the occasion for one of Telugu's major kavyas. He is called Mukku Timmana, the nose Timmana, after a much-quoted verse of his in praise of a woman's nose.
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.
Connections (1)
- In the same set asAllasani Peddana
Peddana and Timmana are the first two of the eight and the two whose works fixed the prabandha as the form of the reign: a single long narrative poem in ornate Telugu, taking an episode from a purana and elaborating it, rather than translating a Sanskrit original. Everything the other six wrote is measured against these two, and the Andhra Kavita Pitamaha title went to Peddana.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Nandi Thimmana”. Nandi Timmana, Pārijātāpaharaṇamu; Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (2002).
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