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Taylor 67 ; Cavelly Yenkata Ramasvanii 68 too and many others 

 have adopted and spread the same mistake. It seems almost 

 impossible how any one who has read the Yasucaritram and 

 the Narasabhupallyam could make such wrong statements ; 

 the pedigree is given most clearly in both poems which 

 entirely coincide in all particulars, especially about Tirumala 

 and his family. Our genealogical tree of the Narapatis is 

 partly based on these abovementioned works. The author of 

 the Yasucaritram is called Kamarajabhusana ; that this is not 

 a real, but an assumed name need not be specially proved. 

 The poet in question was patronised by Ramaraja, the brother 

 of Tirumalaraja, and was accordingly called " the ornament 

 of Ramaraja." The seventeenth verse of the Avatarika to 

 the Yasucaritram confirms this assertion. The poet introduces 

 Tirumalaraja as saying the following words : 0 poet Rama- 

 bhusana, thou hast pleased many a time by Sanskrit and 

 Telugu poems my elder brother Ramaraja, who was a great 

 conqueror and a master of all sciences, and hast been honored 

 by him with gifts of necklaces of gems, horses, elephants,, 

 and villages ; thou art in all ways a worthy person. 69 



67 See Catalogue Raisonne of Oriental Manuscripts, III, pp. 206 and 219. 

 Mr. Taylor says about the Narasabhupaliyam that it is "a poem by one of the 

 Ashta dicgajas at Vijayanagaram, there having been eight learned men so 

 termed by way of distinction. Timma Raju, or by title Bhattamurtti, from 

 poetical eminence, was one of these eight poets of Krishna Rayer's court. 

 This work, written by him, is entitled after the father of Krishna Rayer ; and, 

 as usual, contains the genealogy of the patron," About the Vasucaritram 

 Mr. Taylor observes that it was " composed by Bhattamurtti, one of the 

 eight celebrated poets at Vijayanagaram. It was written after the capture of 

 Vijayanagaram and under the patronage of Timmaraja of Pennaconda, son 

 of the ill-fated Ramaraja, last of the Vijayanagaram dynasty and elder 

 brother of the two rulers at Chandragiri and Seringapatam." 



68 See Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets, pp. 85, 86. 



69 See Vasucaritram, verse 17. 



