Person · Telugu poet
Śrīnātha
Also known as Srinatha, Kavi Sarvabhauma Srinatha
Telugu poet of the Reddi court at Kondavīdu, titled Kavi Sārvabhauma, emperor among poets. His Bhīmeśwara Purāṇamu is a full Telugu retelling of Drākshārāmam's temple legend, which is how a local sthala purāṇa became literature read far beyond the delta.
- Date
- c. 1365 – 1441
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Tradition
- Bhīmeśwara Purāṇamu; Telugu chatu tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Worth knowing
He also wrote the Krīḍābhirāmamu's companion pieces and the Palnāṭi Vīra Charitra, and his chāṭu verses — short extempore stanzas, many of them complaints about bad food and worse patrons on the road — are the liveliest record of a fifteenth-century poet's working life.
Connections (1)
- Devotional corpus onBhīmeśvara, Drākshārāmam
Śrīnātha's Bhīmeśwara Purāṇamu retells Drākshārāmam's temple legend as a full Telugu poem, dedicated to the deity and composed under Reddi patronage. A sthala purāṇa written by the foremost poet of his age is how a delta shrine's story travelled beyond the people who could walk to it. Śrīnātha's chāṭu verses, short extempore stanzas complaining about bad food and worse patrons on the road, are the liveliest record anywhere of a fifteenth-century Indian poet's working conditions.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Srinatha”. The subject’s own writings where they survive, and the standard biographical literature.
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