Chemakura Venkataraju
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Chemakura Venkataraju was a Telugu poet in the court of the Thanjavur Nayak king Raghunatha Nayak who ruled from 1600 to 1634. He wrote Vijayavilasamu, a prabandha on the marriage of the Indian mythological hero Arjuna with Ulupi and Subhadra. In a preface to the work, Venkataraju heaps praise on Raghunatha Nayak. Chemakura was the first person to write a prabandha on Sarangadhara, an epic popular in Western India
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- Rao, N. Venkata (1978). The southern school in Telugu literature. University of Madras. p. 12.
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- People from Thanjavur district
- Indian male poets
- 17th-century Indian poets
- Poets from Tamil Nadu
- 17th-century male writers
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