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Atukuri Molla (1440–1530) was a Telugu poet who authored the Telugu-language Ramayana. Identified by her caste, she was popularly known as Kummara (potter) Molla. ==Biography== She is the second female Telugu poet of note, after Tallapaka Timmakka, wife of Annamacharya. She translated the Sanskrit Ramayana into Telugu. Her father Kesana was a potter of Gopavaram, a village in Badvel Mandal, fifty miles north of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh state. He was a Saivaite and devotee of Srikantha Malleswara (an incarnation of Shiva) in Srisailam. He gave her daughter the name ''Molla'', meaning "Jasmine", a favourite flower to the god, and also nicknamed her ''Basavi'' in respect to Basaveswara (another incarnation of Shiva). Molla claimed Lord Shiva as Guru, and her inspiration is claimed to have come from Potana, who wrote Bhagavata purana in Telugu. Like him, she was Saivaite, but wrote the story of Rama(an incarnation of Vishnu) and also refused to dedicate her Ramayana to any king according to general practice for poets. According to Varadarajn's book, "Study of Vaishnava Literature", as her popularity spread, she was invited to Sessions court and got an opportunity to recite Ramayana in front of KrishnadevaRaya and his poets. She spent her old age at Srisailam in the presence of Lord Srikantha Malleswara. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Molla (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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