A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.36

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An Ulā on another famous Śaiva shrine, that of Tiruvānaikkā on the island of Śrīrangam, was the work of Kālamegham, the accredited author of many witty verses besides; he was supported by Sāluva Tirumalairāja, the son of Goppaya, and ruler of the Chola country under Vijayanagar in the middle of the fifteenth century. Śaiva Ellappa Nāvalar, a veḷḷāla poet of the Tanjore district, flourished in the sixteenth century (c. 1542-80), and wrote an excellent kōvai on Tiruvārūr (496 verses), besides Aruṇaiandādi and Aruṇācalapurāṇam, both on the shrine of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai, and Tiruviriñjaipurāṇam; he also wrote a commentary on the Tamil Soundaryalahari, a translation by Virai Kavirājapanditar.