[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.s2.37 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.37 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.37 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.37) About the same time the Pāṇḍyan king Ativirarāma of Tenkāśī (c. 1564) achieved literary distinction by his \*Naiḍadam\* with its twelve \*paḍalams\* and 1,172 verses written in high style and full of conceits not always pleasing to a modern reader, but held in high esteem by pandits; it contains many echoes of phrases and sentiments from older classics like the \*Jīvakacintāmaṇi\* and the \*Rāmāyaṇam\* of Kamban. Easier in their style are the same royal poet's translations from Sanskrit originals—the \*Kāśikaṇḍam\* and \*Kūrmapurāṇam\*; and the small book on morals known as \*Veṟṟivēṟkai\* or \*Narundogai\* is simple enough to be followed by children, for whom it is meant. A contemporary of this royal author was Śērai Kavirājapiḷḷai who wrote \*Tirukkaḷatti-nādar-kaṭṭalaikkalitturai-mālai\* on the deity of Kālahasti at the request of the king; other works of Kavirājapiḷḷai were \*Tirukkaḷatti-nādar-ulā\*, \*Tiruvaṇṇāmaliyār-vaṇṇam\*, \*Śēyūr-Murugan-ulā\* and \*Rattinagiri-ulā\*. All the poems are marked by elegant diction and deep religious feeling. Varatungarāma Pāṇḍya, a cousin of Ativirarāma, was also a litterateur with varied interests; his three \*andādis\* on the Śiva shrine at Karuvai, i.e. Karivalam-vandanallur in Tinnevelly district, take high rank as pure literature; one of them employs ten metres and is called \*Paḍirruppattandādi\*; and the others are known from their metres as \*Veṇbāvandādi\* and \*Kalitturai-andādi\*. His \*Piramōttira-kaṇḍam\* is a theological poem in twelve \*adhyāyas\* of 1,310 verses on religious subjects. He also translated into Tamil the work on erotics known as \*Kokkoha\* after the name of the composer of the Sanskrit original. In the first half of the seventeenth century, Kandasāmi Pulavar (1621) of Tiruppūvaṇam wrote an \*Ulā\* on the local Śaiva shrine and a \*Purāṇa\* on Tiruvāppaṇūr. More famous was Andakakkavi Virarāghava Mudaliyār, pupil of Kacciyappaśiva of \*Kandapurāṇam\* and author of a \*Purāṇa\* and an \*Ulā\* on Tirukkaḷukkuṉṟam, an \*Ulā\* on Tiruvārūr and other works of the same type; he also wrote some poems no longer extant in praise of patrons and rulers, such as a \*piḷḷaittamiḷ\* on Vittinar Ammaiyappan of Śēyūr, a \*vaṇṇam\* on Pararājasinghan of Ceylon and an \*Ulā\* on the ruler of Kayattār, i.e. Mādai Tiruvengaḍanāthar mentioned above as the author of \*Prabōdacandrōdayam\*. - [Previous: c19.s2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.36) - [Next: c19.s2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.38) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2) ## Linked texts (5) - [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sangam.five_great_epics.civakacintamani) — Tiruttakkatēvar, Tamil - [Veṟṟivēṟkai](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.niti.verriverkai) — Ativīrarāma Pāṇṭiyaṉ 1560, Tamil - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit - [Prabodhacandrodaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.allegorical.prabodhacandrodaya) — Kṛṣṇamiśra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.37) · Pramāṇa