Kshetrayya was a prolific Telugu poet. He lived in the area of what is now Andhra Pradesh in South India. He composed a number of padams and keertanas, the prevalent formats of his time. He is credited with more than 4000 compositions, although only a handful have survived.
Writers born in the 1590s 6
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Kshetrayya was a prolific Telugu poet. He lived in the area of what is now Andhra Pradesh in South India. He composed a number of padams and keertanas, the prevalent formats of his time. He is credited with more than 4000 compositions, although only a handful have survived. He composed his songs on his favourite Hinduism deity Krishna (Gopala) in Telugu.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1595 to 1680 · aged 85
Written about in
5 languages
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