# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tikkana
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:42:08.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tikkana"
name: "Tikkana"
slug: "tikkana"
description: "Tikkana (1205–1288), also known as Tikkana Somayaji, was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family. He was the second poet of the \"Trinity of Poets \" that translated Mahabharata into Telugu. Nannaya Bhattaraka, the first, translated two and a half chapters of Mahabharata. Tikkana translated the final 15 chapters, under the Kakatiya's tributary Cholas of Nellore but did not undertake translating the half-finished Aranya Parvamu. The Telugu people remained without this last translation for more than a century, until it was translated by Errana."
tagline: "13th-century Telugu poet who translated the Mahabharata"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thikkana_somayaji.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1205"
deathDate: "1288"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.893414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "തിക്കന"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkana"
    title: "Tikkana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "तिक्कन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "திக்கனா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%A8"
    title: "తిక్కన"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3520447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump