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Kalahastisvara Satakamu
The Kalahastisvara Satakamu is a collection of poems composed in Telugu by Dhurjati, who has been described as an ashtadiggaja in the Vijayanagara court of Krishnadevaraya.[1] The poems are dedicated to the form of Shiva venerated at the Kalahasti temple.[2] They are well-known by Telugu-speaking audiences.[3][4] The Satakamu text generally comprises a collection of one hundred poems[3] in praise of a deity.[5] The manuscripts of this text contain somewhere between 21 and 129 poems.[2] Each poem ends with an invocation of Shiva, the god of Kalahasti.[2] The poems primarily concern devotion[2] to Shiva as a means to liberation from karma.[5] After the introduction of the printing press in the nineteenth century, print copies of the already popular Kalahastisvara Satakamu circulated among Telugu audiences.[4] A selection of these poems has been translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and Hank Heifetz.[2][5] The collection was published by the University of California Press.[6] References
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