Person · Telugu court poet · India
Ramarajabhushanu (Bhattumurti)
Also known as Bhattumurti, Ramarajabhushanu, Bhattu Murthi, Vasucharitramu
One of the Ashtadiggajas, known both as Bhattumurti and by the title Ramarajabhushanu, the ornament of Rama Raya. His Vasucharitramu is the most elaborately worked of the eight poets' prabandhas, built on sustained double meaning and sound patterning, and his Narasabhupaliyam is a treatise on poetics.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Confidence
- Not assessed
- Location
- 15.335, 76.462
Worth knowing
He also wrote the Harischandra Nalopakhyanamu, another dvyarthi poem telling two stories in one set of verses. The title he used comes from Aliya Rama Raya, who was regent after Krishnadevaraya and died at Talikota, so the last of the eight is named for the man who lost the empire.
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)
- AnaloguePingali Surana
Surana's Raghavapandaviyamu and Bhattumurti's Harischandra Nalopakhyanamu are both dvyarthi kavyas — poems in which every verse carries two complete stories at once, held together by pun and grammatical ambiguity. Two of the eight independently attempted the hardest formal problem in Sanskritic poetics, in Telugu, in the same generation and at the same court.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Ramarajabhushanudu”. Bhattumurti, Vasucharitramu; Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, Classical Telugu Poetry (2002).
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