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There are many Ramayanas in Telugu before the the present work both in Dwipada and Champu but Varadaraju has not made mention of any of the previous Ramayana writers. The following are the particulars of those works that are known to us from the latest researches.
1. Ranganadha Ramayana. (Dwipada) by Gona Buddha Reddy. The work is already referred to and needs no introduction to the Telugu public. It is much appreciated for its racy Desi style and also quoted by Laksanakaras. The date of the work is 1270-1280 A. D.
2. Dwipada Ramayanamu. Tallapäka Annamayya (1408-1503 A.D.) Tallapaka Chinnanna in the biography[1] of his grand-father states that Annamayya, the first great Sankirtanacharya of Tirupati wrote a Dwipada Rämäyana in Telugu, but the work is not available now. A portion of the work however seems to be preserved in the Tanjore Library in number 335 styled as "Rama Katha."[2] It may also be surmised that some of the additional portions in the appendices of the Andhra University edition of Ranganatha Ramayana may also contain the Dwipadas from Annamaya's lost work.
Among Campu Kavyas Bhaskara Ramāyanamu is a well known and oft-quoted work written at the
