Paper I · 14 Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts & Literature of Telangana · 14.6 Language and literature
14.6.1 Literature from the Satavahanas to the Qutb Shahis and the samsthanams
Telangana's written literature runs from Prakrit works of the Satavahana age (Gunadhya, Hala) through the Kannada classics and first Telugu verses of Vemulawada, the desi Telugu of Palkuriki Somanatha and Gona Budda Reddy under the Kakatiyas, Pothana's Bhagavatam under the Padmanayakas, and the Telugu, Persian and Dakhni (early Urdu) of the Qutb Shahi court, to the poets kept alive by small Telugu courts (samsthanams) such as Gadwal and Jataprolu.
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Key terms
- Gunadhya
- Brihatkatha
- Paisachi
- Hala
- Gatha Saptashati
- Kondapur
- Pampa
- Vikramarjuna Vijaya
- Adipurana
- Arikesari II
- Vemulawada
- Jinavallabha
- Kurkyala inscription
- Bommalagutta
- kanda padya
- Malliya Rechana
- Kavijanashrayam
- Somadeva Suri
- Yasastilaka Champu
- Palkuriki Somanatha
- Basava Puranam
- Panditaradhya Charitra
- Vrishadhipa Satakam
- dvipada
- desi
- marga
- Mallikarjuna Panditaradhya
- Sivatattvasaram
- Gona Budda Reddy
- Ranganatha Ramayanam
- Kuppambika
- Vidyanatha
- Prataparudra Yasobhushanam
- Jayapa
- Nritta Ratnavali
- Marana
- Markandeya Purana
- Bhaskara Ramayanam
- Bammera Pothana
- Andhra Maha Bhagavatamu
- Bhogini Dandakam
- Sarvajna Singabhupala
- Rasarnava Sudhakara
- Mallinatha Suri
- Kolachalam
- Sanjivani
- Gaurana
- Madiki Singana
- Sakala Niti Sammatamu
- Addanki Gangadhara
- Tapati Samvaranopakhyanam
- Ponnaganti Telaganarya
- Yayati Charitra
- Kandukuri Rudrakavi
- Sugriva Vijayam
- Mariganti Singanacharya
- Kancherla Gopanna
- Ramadasu
- Dasarathi Satakam
- Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
- Kulliyat
- Mulla Wajhi
- Sabras
- Mah Laqa Bai Chanda
- samsthanams
- Gadwal
- Vidwat Gadwal
- Jataprolu
- Surabhi Madhavaraya
- Elakuchi Balasaraswati
- Wanaparthy
- Atmakur
- Domakonda
- classical language 2008
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