Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Muddu Runga Chokanadh
MUDDU RUNGA CHOKANADH.
This poet was by cast a Gentoo, he was born at Trichanapuly, and of illustrious descent, for his father was Vijaya Ranga Chakanadh, a petty sovereign of the Tanjore country, under the dominion of the Vijayanagar government.— Muddu Runga Chakanadh retained at his court various learned men, and poets, to whom he gave very great encouragement, as well as to singers and musicians; he was a votary of the Sriramgam diety, and made a translation of the legendary account of Ranganadh, which comprises various subjects as follows:—Treatise on various articles, account of excavations of different weights and measures on gold mines, on the precious metals—on mathematics and mensuration.—All these subjects are related in a plain and perspicuous manner, so as to come within the comprehension of the commonest understanding——and this work has much conduced to the edification of succeeding generation, as it forms one of their principal class books, The author died while in charge of the administration of public affairs.