Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s5.5

c16.s5.5

In Vijayānagar, literary activity in Sanskrit was more manifest. It was because the south was not long under direct Muslim influence. Sāyana, the famous commentator on the Vedas, served as Minister under Hari Hara II, and his brother Mādhava under Bukka. Krishna Dēva Raya was a great patron of Sanskrit and Telugu literature. "The numerous inscriptions show that a knowledge of Sanskrit was widely diffused and court-poets and writers were past-masters in drafting official documents."\103 The Jains also produced a great deal of religious and secular literature. A great Jain writer of the middle of the fifteenth century was Sakalakīritti.