A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s4.5

c19.s4.5

An eminent younger contemporary of Nannaya was Vēmulavāḍa Bhīma Kavi, associated by tradition with the Eastern Ganga emperor Anantavarman Choḍaganga (1078-1148). He was the author of *Kavijanāśraya*, a Telugu grammar, and *Bhīmēśvara Purāṇa* relating legends of the shrine of Bhīmēśvara at Dākṣhārāma. He seems to have written also *Rāghava-Pāṇḍavīya*, giving the story of both the *Rāmāyaṇa* and *Mahābhārata* together, the whole book being a sustained *double entendre*; it is no longer extant. There is much uncertainty about the life and works of Bhīma Kavi who has become a centre of many myths and miracles.