[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.s4.12 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s4.12 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s4.12 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4.12) Among the contemporaries of Tikkana must be noticed Ketana, author of Daśakumāracarita, a translation of Dandin's work which got him the title ‘Abhinava Dandi’, of a grammar called Andhra-bhāshā-bhūshaṇa, and of a translation of Vijñāneśvara's Mitāksharā; Mārana, a pupil of Tikkana, whose Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa became the basis of Peddana's Manucaritra; and Mañcana of Rajahmundry, author of Kēyūrabāhucaritra. Baddena, a Chola feudatory of Rudramadevi in the Shaṭsahasra country, wrote the Nitiśāstra-muktāvali, a treatise on politics in fifteen chapters, and probably also Sumati Śataka, a popular work of moral maxims. - [Previous: c19.s4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4.11) - [Next: c19.s4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4.13) - [Up: c19.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4) ## Linked texts (4) - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Manucaritramu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.telugu.prabandha.manucaritramu) — Allasāni Peddana 1515, Telugu - [Daśakumāracarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.novels.prasiddha.dasakumaracarita) — Daṇḍin, Sanskrit - [Sumati Śatakamu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.telugu.vijnana.sumatisatakamu) — Peddana, Telugu --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s4.12) · Pramāṇa