Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.96

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¹ On Nāchana Sōma and "Mb. 156", Mr. Venkayya wrote thus: "From the description (of the sūtra, gōtra, śākhā as given in "Mb. 158") it seems as if the donee was the Telugu poet Nāchana Sōma, who according to Rao Bahadur Virēśalingam Pantulu must have lived about 20 or 30 years after Eṇḍapra-gaḍa. The latter was the protegé of the Koṇḍavīḍu Reḍḍi chief Ana Vēma, whose earliest date is Saka-Samvat 1267 (An. Report for 1899-1900, paragraphs 60-1). The gōtra, sūtra, śākhā of the poet cannot be verified as the first āśvāsa of his Harivaṁśamu, where all the details may be expected, has not yet been traced." E. Report for 1907, p. 82. See also Virēśalingam Pantulu, Andhrakavula Charitramu, I, p. 97.