Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Pronunciation Introduction 1. Nannaya 2. Nannecoda 3. Palkuriki Somanatha 4. Tikkana 5. Mancana 6. Errapragada 7. Nacana Somanatha 8. Srinatha 9. Bammera Potana 10. Annamayya 11. Allasani Peddana 12. Krsnadevaraya 13. Nandi Timmanna 14. Dhurjati 15. Tenali Ramakrsna 16. Nutana-kavi Suranna 17. Pingali Suranna 18. Appakavi 19. Ksetrayya 20. Satakas 21. Catu Verses 22. Sahaji 23. Samukhamu Venkatakrsnappa Nayaka 24. Muddupalani 25. Tyagaraja Bibliography Index

About the Author

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. David Shulman is Professor of Indian Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Together they have written A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India (California, 1998) and When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (California, 1994, with A. K. Ramanujan).