A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c17.28

c17.28

Devarāya was a great builder and a patron of poets. Himself a scholar and author, he is reputed to have presided with conspicuous success over many literary disputations. In one such, the Telugu poet Śrīnātha was held to surpass the poet-laureate who belonged to the celebrated Diṇḍima family, and is said to have been bathed in a shower of golden tankas.