Tallapaka Tirumalamma
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Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Timmakka (15th century) was a Telugu poet who wrote Subhadra Kalyanam in Telugu. She was wife of singer-poet Annamacharya and was popularly known as Timmakka.
Biography
Timmakka was born into a Niyogi Brahmin family. She is considered as the first Telugu woman poet.[1][2]
Timmakka's main work, Subhadra Kalyanam with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of Arjuna and Subhadra, characters in Hindu epic Mahabharata. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from Sanskrit epic.[citation needed]
See also
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- Molla, another early female poet in Telugu
References
- ^ "The Legacy of Tallapaka Poets". Archived from the original on 31 December 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2007.
- ^ Timmakka at Telugu women author list
External links
- A compilation of Telugu poets
- A list of almost all Telugu women poets
- Telugu women poets in Last 1000 years
- Tirmula pages on Tallapaka family Archived 31 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- AnnamayyaKeerthanalu ( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English)
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