A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s4.11

c19.s4.11

The Rāmāyaṇa was translated by two poets of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Kona Buddharāja, a feudatory of Kākatīya Pratāparudra II, produced the Ranganātha Rāmāyaṇa in dvipada metre, a work of great simplicity and sweetness and full of apt similes. Ranganātha's relation to the poem is by no means clear; either he was a court poet or possibly the guru of the king who dedicated the poem to him. Buddharāja's sons are said to have completed it by adding the Uttara-Rāmāyaṇa. The other translation is a Campū by Hullakki Bhāskara and his pupils dedicated to a Sāhinimāra, whose identity is not settled beyond dispute.