Tirumalamba

Tirumalamba

Tirumalamba

Vijayanagaran Polymath

Not to be confused with Nanjangud Tirumalamba, 20th-century writer or Tirumala Devi.

Tirumalamba, also known as Oduva Tirumalamba was an Indian polymath, polyglot and philanthropist of the Vijayanagara period who was active as a poetess, a musician, a grammarian and a Hindu scholar.[1] She is chiefly remembered for composing Varadambika Parinaya, a Kavya on the wedding of the Emperor Achyuta Deva Raya and Salaga Princess Varadambika, in Sanskrit.[2] It was the only Sanskrit romance to be written by a woman. She also knew many scripts and coined the largest word of her time.[1]

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She also became a queen of the Emperor Achyuta as noted in the epilogue of Varadambika Parinaya where she is described as the "confidante and the be-all and the end-all of the deepest love of Emperor Achyutaraya" and substantiated by other primary sources.[3] Scholar Lakshman Sarup theorizes that Tirumalamba is the unnamed daughter of a Pandya vassal who wed emperor Achyuta mentioned in a Kanchi Inscription.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Upadhyay, Jay. "The Feminisms of Dharmic India". The Illinois Undergraduate Journal of History. 1 (1): 5. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Telugu Women Writers of the Last Millennium". Retrieved 16 January 2007.
  3. [3]
    Sastri, Suryakanta (1970). Varadambika Parinaya Campu. Chaukhamba Amarabharati Prakashan. p. 1.
  4. [4]
    Sarup, Lakshman (1928). Proceedings And Transactions Of The Fifth Indian Oriental Conference Vol 1. University of Panjab, Lahore.


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