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The avatārika or the introductory portion is styled as "Vijayaraghava Vamsavaļi", and seems to have been separated from the original when copies were made out. No other copy of the work seems to be available any where except the above.
Vijayaraghava Vamsavali (No. 222) M. 256. The separation of the introduction or the Avatārika portion from the text, led some scholars *[1] to think that it is a separate work from Rājagõpālavilisamu, but on a thorough examination of the work it was found that the portion contains the first eighty-six verses, the last five of them being the usual "Shashțyantas' or the dedicatory verses (five kandas from 81-85) relating to Vijayaraghava Náyaka. A separate work describing a Vamšavali can never end in such a manner, and so the above work is not separately printed but incorporated in the present edition of Rājagopala Vilasamu with which it has to be naturally combined.
AUTHOR-KALAKAVI
Chengalva Kāļakavi, is not well known to Telugu Scholars. Though he was living at the time of Raghunatha Nayaka (1614–1633), yet as we shall see later, he was attached to Vijayaraghava Niyaka from the beginning and does not therefore appear in the court of Raghunatha. From verse 28, we learn the following about his family and literary attainments. He belongs to Pakanați Arvela Niyogi Brahmin Family of Sri Vatsagotra. He mentions
- ↑ 2 Late J. Ramayya Pantulu, B.A., B.L., The Southern School of Telugu Literature. Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society, Vol. 1, No. 384, page 169–177 (English)
