Timmakka

Tallapaka Tirumalamma (15th Century) was a famous Telugu poet who wrote "Subhadra Kalyanam" in Telugu. She was wife of famous singer-poet Annamacharya and was popularly known as Timmakka. Alternate spelling "Thimmakka" also refers to same poet.

Biography

She was born in Brahmin's family . She is considered as the first telugu poetess. [ [http://www.tirumala.org/sapthagiri/122002/tallapaka.htm Timmakka was the first poetess in telugu] ] [ [http://www.vepachedu.org/Women.html Timmakka at telugu women author list] ]

Her works

Her 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.

ample Poetry

ee also

*Molla, another ancient women poet in Telugu.

External links

* [http://www.maganti.org/page5.html A Great Compilation of Telugu poets / poetesses]
* [http://www.maganti.org/PDFdocs/kavayitrulu.pdf A List of almost all telugu women poets]
* [http://www.vepachedu.org/Women.html Telugu women poets in Last 1000 years]
* [http://www.tirumala.org/sapthagiri/122002/tallapaka.htm Tirmula pages on Tallapaka family]
* [http://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%82:%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81 AnnamayyaKeerthanalu] ( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English)

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