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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
XLVI
TIRUMALĀMBĀ. Tirumalām bā is one of the poetesses of South India. Like Gangádevi and others, she has firmly established the fact that Hindu ladies are not so illiterate as they are made out to be by the outside world. The Varadám bikāpariņaya (No. 4220) of this lady is a historical Kävya dealing with the life of Acyutadevarāya, the successor of Kramadevarāya.
YAJNANĀRĀYANA DIKSITA.
The Sahityaratnākara (Nos. 4221-22) and the Raghunathabhyudayanataka (No. 4487) of this author, the son of the famous Govinda Dikaita perpetuate the memory of the great Raghunatha Nayaka, the most liberal patron of Snoekrit and Telugu learning, in Tanjore in the 17th century. For a summary of the contents of this work, please refer to the “Sources of Vijayanagar History" Pages 269-74.
PARAMĀNANDAKAVÎNDRA. The Sivabhārata, & work dealing with the life of the greatest of Maharatha ralers of South India, Sivāji, is by one of his cou. temporaries and is therefore an authentic source of information regarding that person and the troubulous times in which he was living. Recently the book was published in Poone and their only source was the manuscripts deposited in this library (Nos. 422926.)
JAYARĀMA.
Jayarāma's Parņālaparvatagrabapa (No:. 4227-28) deals with one of the military exploits of Sivāji. Parnālaparvata was one of the bill fortresses which he captured. Jayarā ma too seems to have been a contemporary of his.
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