[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.s1.22 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.22 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.22 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.22) Similar in spirit and manner are two works on dramaturgy, both composed about 1300 and both including a play calculated to glorify the author's patron and illustrate the rules of the drama: these are the Ekāvali of Vidyādhara, written under Narasimha II of Orissa, and Pratāparudra-Yaśobhūshana of Vidyānātha whose patron was Pratāparudra II, the Kākatiya ruler of Wārangal. The last-named ruler was himself the author of a nīti work, extracts from which appear in the anthology Sūktiratnākara of Sūrya and on which the Telugu Baddana-nīti is based. Vidyānātha is often identified with Agastya, the reputed author of seventy-four Kāvyas in all among which are Bālabhārata, a poetic summary of the great epic in twenty cantos commented on by Sālüva Timma, the minister of Krishnadeva Rāya; the Krishna-carita, a prose summary of the Bhāgavata; and Nalakirtikaumudi which narrates the familiar story of Nala and Damayantī. Viśvanātha, the author of Sāhityadarpana a comprehensive work covering the entire field of poetics, flourished (c. 1350) in the court of one Narasimha, probably the third king of that name to rule over Orissa. - [Previous: c19.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.21) - [Next: c19.s1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.23) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (6) - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Pratāparudrīya (Pratāparudrayaśobhūṣaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.yasobhusana.prataparudriya) — Vidyānātha, Sanskrit - [Sāhityadarpaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.sahityadarpana) — Viśvanātha Kavirāja, Sanskrit - [Bālabhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.balabharata) — Amaracandrasūri, Sanskrit - [Ekāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.yasobhusana.ekavali) — Vidyādhara, Sanskrit - [Nalakīrtikaumudī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.pauranika.nalakirtikaumudi) — Agastya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.22) · Pramāṇa