Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Timmakka (15th century) was a
Telugu poet who wrote ''Subhadra Kalyanam'' in Telugu. She was wife of singer-poet
Annamacharya
Tallapaka Annamacharya () (09 May 1408 – 23 February 1503), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a Telugu musician, composer, and a Hindu saint. He is the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called '' samkirtanas.'' His devoti ...
and was popularly known as Timmakka.
Biography
Timmakka was born into a
Niyogi Brahmin
Niyogi Brahmin is a Telugu Brahmin Caste, subcaste native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, but are spread throughout South India and Maharashtra. The traditional occupations of the Niyogi Brahmins are Agriculture, settl ...
family. She is considered as the first Telugu woman poet.
Timmakka at Telugu women author list
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Timmakka's main work, ''Subhadra Kalyanam'' with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of Arjuna
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and Subhadra
Subhadra (, ) is a character in the ancient Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. She is a princess from the Yadava clan and the sister of Krishna and Balarama. Subhadra married Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers and had a son named Abhimanyu.
Sub ...
, characters in Hindu
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epic Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...
. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from Sanskrit
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epic.
See also
* Molla, another early female poet in Telugu
References
External links
A compilation of Telugu poets
A list of almost all Telugu women poets
AnnamayyaKeerthanalu
( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English)
Telugu poets
15th-century Indian poets
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
People from Kadapa district
People from Rayalaseema
Indian women poets
Poets from Andhra Pradesh
Women from the Vijayanagara Empire
Vijayanagara poets
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