[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.s2.43 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.43 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s2.43 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.43) In lexicography, the most popular lexicon \*Nigaṇḍu-cūḍāmaṇi\* was composed by a Jaina author by name Mandalapurusha, most probably in the reign of Krishnadeva Rāya of Vijayanagar whose name figures prominently in the lexicon. The work follows the scheme of Divākaram, but is written in verse instead of in the form of Sūtras. Then came the Agarādi-nigaṇḍu (1594) of Chidambara Rēvaṇa Siddar, a Vīra-śaiva, the first to attempt an alphabetical arrangement of the words treated; the first word (agarādi) in the name of the work meaning ‘alphabetic order’ has since come to mean a dictionary. The Kayādaram (c. 1550) of a Brahmin author, Kayādarar by name, cited in Māṟan-Alaṅkāram, and the Uriccol-nigaṇḍu, a short lexicon by a certain Śaiva author named Gāṅgēyan (early seventeenth century), are also worth noting. - [Previous: c19.s2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.42) - [Next: c19.s2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.44) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s2.43) · Pramāṇa