The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c31.25

v1.c31.25

Tirumala has been supposed to be the author of the commentary entitled *Srutiranjani* on the *Gita Govinda*; but one of the copies possessed by the Maharaja Sarfoji’s Saraswati Mahal Library, Tanjore, professes to have been composed by Lakshmanasuri, a worshipper of Dakshinamurti and a younger brother of Kondubhatta of Cherukuru. Dr. Hultzsch seems to believe that this was the actual author of the commentary, and Tirumala his patron ⁵. Lakshmanasuri, called also Ramanandasrama and Lakshmidhara, was a *sannyasi* pupil of Krishnasrama, whose family came from Cherukuru on the Krishna river. He is the author of the *Anargharaghava* and the Prakrit grammar *Shadbashachandrika*, based on the grammars of Trivikrama, Hemachandra and Bhamaja¹.