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Mahakavi Allasani Peddana (c. 15th and 16th centuries CE) was a prominent Telugu poet and the foremost Ashtadiggaja in the imperial court of Emperor Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara.
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Mahakavi Allasani Peddana (c. 15th and 16th centuries CE) was a prominent Telugu poet and the foremost Ashtadiggaja in the imperial court of Emperor Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara.
His birthplace is contested. Alternatives include:
He wrote the first major Prabandha, a form of Telugu poetry. He is revered as Andhra Kavita Pitamahudu (the grand father of Telugu poetry). He was also a minister in the king's court and is hence sometimes referred as Peddanaamaatyudu (Sandhi: Peddana + Amaatyudu = Peddana, the minister). He dedicated his works to king Krishnadevarayalu.
His most notable work was Swaarochisha Manu Sambhavam (also known as Manu Charitramu). This work describes an episode in Markandeya-purana relating to the birth of Svarochisha-manu, who is one of the fourteen Manus. Pravara, a pious Brahmin youth. goes to the Himalayas for sightseeing, where a Gandharva woman called Varudhini falls in love with him. Pravara rejects her love as he is married. Knowing this, a Gandharva youth who was earlier rejected by Varudhini, assumes the form of Pravara and wins her love. The couple's child is Svarochi, the father of Svarochisha-manu.
Other works such as Harikathaasaaramu are untraceable now.
Krishnadevaraya ornamented Peddana's leg with a golden bangle/bracelet called ganda-penderam as a mark of excellent poetry
The theme for his Manu Charitra is a short story from Markandeya Purana. It is about the second of fourteen Manus (fathers of society according to Hindu mythology). It was translated into Telugu from Sanskrit by Marana (1291–1323), disciple of Tikkana. The original story was around 150 poems that Peddana extended into six chapters of 600 poems by adding fiction and descriptions. His work was treated as one of the Pancha Kavyas, the five best works in Telugu. Peddana used a mix of words from Telugu and Sanskrit.
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