[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.s2.39 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.39 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.39 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.39) Śivaprakāśar is associated with Tuṟaimangalam as he accepted the friendship and patronage of Aṇṇāmalai Reddi of that place. Born in Kāñchipuram, Śivaprakāśar had his education under Veḷḷiyambalavāṇa Tambirān of Tinnevelly; he spent some time with Aṇṇāmalai Reddi both on his way to Tinnevelly and back; patron and protégé were alike Vīra-śaivas by persuasion, but the poet at any rate was no fanatic, as among his thirty works there are many that show his deep knowledge of and regard for the philosophy of Śaiva-siddhānta and for the four Samayācāryas of Tamil Śaivism and their works. He is said to have met a Christian missionary for a disputation, (this could not have been Father Beschi as is often stated), and to have composed a polemic refuting the Christian creed—\*Eśumada-nirākaraṇam\*, no longer extant. Besides devotional poems on the deities of Tiruccendūr, Tiruvengai (near Tuṟaimangalam), Tiruvaṇṇāmalai and other places, he wrote the \*Prabhulinga-līlai\*, a translation from a Kannada original on the sports of Allamadēva, an incarnation of Śiva honoured of the Vira-śaivas; it is a long poem in 25 sections containing 1,157 stanzas. It bears the date 1652. Other notable works of the author are: \*Siddhāntaśikhāmaṇi\*, a Vira-śaiva manual, translated from Sanskrit; \*Vedānta-cūḍāmaṇi\*, a translation of a Kannada version of a portion of \*Vivekacūḍāmaṇi\* of Śankarācārya; \*Tarukkaparipāḍai\*, a translation of the Sanskrit manual \*Tarkaparibhāṣā\*; and \*Nanneri\*, a short work on ethics in forty \*veṇbās\*. Śivaprakāśar remained a bachelor to his death at the early age of thirty-two. - [Previous: c19.s2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.38) - [Next: c19.s2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.40) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2) ## Linked texts (4) - [Vivekacūḍāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.prakarana.early.vivekacudamani) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Vētānta Cūṭāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.late.civappirakacar.vetanta_cutamani) — Turaimaṅkalam Civappirakācar, Tamil - [Naṉṉeṟi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.niti.nanneri) — Turaimaṅkalam Civappirakācar 1650, Tamil - [Siddhāntaśikhāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.virasaiva.siddhantasikhamani) — Śivayogi Śivācārya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.39) · Pramāṇa