13 nanda-kavi and Mallarasa, and the poetesses Honnamma and Sringaramma. Krishna-Raja I (1713-1731) patronised the authors Cheluva and Ramayanam Tirumaleyacharya and his queen Chelvambe wrote the Varanandı-kalyana and other works The authors Venkamatya and Kattı Gopalaraja were the subordinates of Krishna-Raja II (1734–1766), Singaracharya wrote the Stranga-mahatnya under the patronage of Chama-Raja (1770 --1776) and De vachandra wrote his Rajavalıkathe hy order of Deviramnianni, the que en of Khasd Cha'na-Rija (1776-1796) Krisnna Raja III (1799-- 1868) was not only a voluminous writer hun self but was also a imunificent patron of literary metit By his encouragement many works were written by Alıya Lingaraja, Nanjunda of Devalapura, Srinivasarkavi, Santaraja-pandita, Venkataraind-sastrı, Subrahmanya, Nanjappa of Maddagiri, Sitaramd-suri, Kempu Narayana, Ramakrishna-sastrı, Kamala-pandita and others By order of his queens CheluvaJanımanni and Deva jammanni, Bhagavatam Krishnasvamı wrote a Kannada version of the Vasa shtha-Ramii yana in 1869. THE PALEGARS --Nilakanthacharya wrote the Aradhya« haritra under the patronage of Vira-Nanjendra (1482-1494) of Uınmattur, Linga-mantri wrote the lexicon kabbigaru-kaupidi at the instance of Raya-bhupd of Nuggehallı, MummadiTammd of Sugatur was the author of the Sankara-sanhite. Doddyya, the author of the Chandraprabha-charite, was patronised by 'upa-raja of Piriyapattana, Narasimhabhatta (omposed the medical work V audvasarasangraha by order of Chenna-raja of Hadımadu, ând Surya-kavı, the author of the lexicon Kavakanthahara, was a protege of Venkatadri-Nayaka (1626 - 1643) of Belur Sosale Revanacharya wrote Kannada versions of some Sanskrit works at the instance of Mudiyappa-Nayaka of Chikhanayakanhalli and of Raghuvappa-Nayaka of Mudigere. Virakta Tontadarya, the author of the Siddhesvara-purana and several other works, was patronised by Tontada Siddhalınga-bhupa of Bijjavara, and Mallikarjuna-kavi by Immadı Chikka-bhupa
