Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Lingaya

by Cavelly Venkata Ramaswamie

LINGAYA.

This poet was an inhabitant of the Telugu country. He was during his infancy well educated in the Sanscrit and Telugu languages. He translated from Sanscrit into Telugu a treatise on the science of palmistry, a work, which became very popular with the learned, and with various princes.

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