[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s1.14 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.14 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.14 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.14) Trivikrama Bhaṭṭa, contemporary with Rāshṭrakūṭa Indra III (915), was the author of \*Nalacampū\* or \*Damayantī-kathā\*, the earliest extant Campū in Sanskrit. The story is that the work was composed with the aid of Sarasvati to meet the challenge of a rival at a time when his father, a court-poet, was absent. It is said to have been left unfinished because the father returned and rendered the son's effort otiose. Both verse and prose are no more than mediocre. The \*Madālasācampū\* is also attributed to Trivikrama. The earliest extant Campū from Kerala is the \*Amogharāghava\* by Divākara (A.D. 1299)—on the Bālakāṇḍa story of the \*Rāmāyaṇa\*; this type became much more common later both in Sanskrit and Malayālam. - [Previous: c19.s1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.13) - [Next: c19.s1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.15) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (2) - [Nalacampū](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.nalacampu) — Trivikramabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.14) · Pramāṇa