The Colas c34.50
The Cōḷas c34.50
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c34.50
The Āḻvār Kulaśekhara (ninth century) produced *Mukundamālā*, a devotional lyric which has retained its popularity to this day. Only a little later came Śaktibhadra, reputed pupil of Śaṅkara; his *Āścarya-Cūḍāmaṇi* deals with an episode in the Rāma saga and is believed to have been the first full-blown drama (*nāṭaka*) to be produced in the South. The same author’s *Unmādavāsavadatta* is no longer extant. A second Kulaśekhara from Kerala (A.D. 935-55) dramatised incidents from the *Mahābhārata* in a stageworthy manner in the *Tapatīsaṁvaraṇa* and *Subhadrā-Dhanañjaya*. This royal author also patronised Vāsudeva, the author of *Nalodaya* wrongly attributed to Kālidāsa, and Bilvamaṅgalasvāmi alias Līlā-śuka whose *Kṛṣṇa-Karṇāmṛta* is a devotional poem of unsurpassed beauty in three *āśvāsas*.
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- Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta — Līlāśuka Bilvamaṅgala, Sanskrit
- Mukundamālā — Kulacēkarāḻvār, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Unmāda Vāsavadattā — Śaktibhadra, Sanskrit
- Āścaryacūḍāmaṇi — Śaktibhadra, Sanskrit
- Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa — Kulaśekharavarman, Sanskrit
- Subhadrādhanañjaya — Kulaśekharavarman, Sanskrit
- Nalodaya — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit