[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.s2.36 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.36 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.36 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.36) 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. - [Previous: c19.s2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.35) - [Next: c19.s2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.37) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2) ## Linked texts (2) - [Ulā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.late.ula) — Tamil - [Aruṇācalapurāṇam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.kappiyam.arunacalapuranam) — Ellappa Pūpati alias Kāliṅkarāyaṉ Uṇṇāmulai Elappanayinār 1517, Tamil --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.36) · Pramāṇa