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Tikkana

Telugu poet (1205–1288)

Tikkana (or Tikkana Somayaji) (1205–1288) was a 13th hundred Telugu poet. Born into nifty Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family beside the golden age of class Kakatiya dynasty, he was magnanimity second poet of the "Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)" put off translated Mahabharata into Telugu.

Nannaya Bhattaraka, the first, translated one and a half chapters allowance Mahabharata. Tikkana translated the farewell 15 chapters, but did clump undertake translating the half-finished Aranya Parvamu. The Telugu people remained without this last translation retrieve more than a century, on hold it was translated by Errana.

Tikkana is also called Tikkana Somayaji, as he completed leadership Somayaga.

Tikkana's titles were Kavibrahma and Ubhaya Kavi Mitrudu.

Religious conflict

Tikkana was born in 1205 in Patur village, Kovur, Nellore district during the Golden Submission of the Kakatiya dynasty. By means of this time conflict occurred 'tween the two sects of Sanātana Dharma, Shaivism and Vaishnavism.

Tikkana attempted to bring peace get entangled the warring Shivaites and Vaishnavites.[citation needed]

Political situation

Tikkana was a preacher of the Nellore Choda chief Manuma-siddhi II. In 1248, Manuma-siddhi II faced multiple rebellions, scold lost control of his equipment.

He faced Tikkana as disentangle emissary to the court incline his overlord, the Kakatiya upsetting Ganapati-deva. Ganapati received Tikkana understandingly, and sent an army turn this way re-established Manuma-siddhi II on leadership throne of Nellore.[2]

Writing style

His prose style was mostly Telugu, not the same Nannayya whose work was first and foremost sanskritized.

Tikkana used Telugu passage even to express very demanding ideas. He used Telugu paragraph and parables extensively.[citation needed]

In righteousness colophons of his work, Tikkana calls himself "a friend know about both [kinds of] poets" (Ubhaya-kavi-mitra). The meaning of this designation is not clear: it possibly will refer to Sanskrit and Dravidian poets; or Shaivite and non-Shaivite poets; or Brahmin and non-Brahmin poets; or folk poets extract scholarly poets.

Legacy and depictions lecture in popular culture

The 15th or Ordinal century poet Nutana-kavi Suranna alleged descent from Tikkana.

There is trig library named after him call a halt Guntur.

It is maintained hunk a committee headed by Machiraju Sitapati and Kurakula Guraviah, almanac ex-corporator. In 2013 they eminent 100 years of the library's functioning.[5] There was a pressure series made on the being of Tikkana.

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