Tenali Ramakrishna

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A Poster from Telugu film Tenali Ramakrishna starring NTR and Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Srikrishna Devaraya and Ramakrishna
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A Poster from Telugu film Tenali Ramakrishna starring NTR and Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Srikrishna Devaraya and Ramakrishna

Tenali Ramakrishna, popularly known as Tenali Rama, is commonly said to have been a court-poet and court Jester of Krishnadeva Raya of the Vijayanagara empire, though whether or not he actually was a contemporary of Krishnadeva Raya is disputed, as Tenali Ramakrishna's most famous work, Panduranga Mahatyam, is dedicated to Krishnadeva Raya's grandson. He was known for wit and prodigious poetry written in the Telugu language. Ramakrishna was also a great scholar of several languages that included Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, and Tamil.

Ramakrishna was called a vikata kavi (a palindrome in Telugu script) and he was one of the Ashtadiggajas of the Vijayanagara court. His notability spread beyond Vijayanagar (present-day Karnataka), to areas that reach as far as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh today.

Astadiggajas

Peddana • Thimmana • Madayyagari Mallana • Dhurjati • Ayyalaraju Ramambhadrudu •
Pingali Surana • Ramarajabhushanudu • Tenali Ramakrishna
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