Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c15.s2.4

c15.s2.4

Among the Telugu scholars of the period mention may first be made of Nācana Sōmanātha Kavi, a court poet of Bukka I. Probably dissatisfied with the translation of the Harivaṃśam by Errapraggaḍa, he wrote a poem called Uttaraharivilāsam, using the Sanskrit Harivilāsam as the basis of his work. In his work he employs a flowery style. The work is full of five graces and pregnant with sense. In every way his translation is better than that of Errapraggaḍa. Bukka granted him the village of Pencukaladinne which was named Bukkarāyapaṭṇam. The epigraph which records the grant says that the poet was proficient in eight languages.¹⁰³