Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Yakanadh Swami
YAKANADH SWAMI.
A Maharata brahmin, and inhabitant of Paitan on the bank of the Godavery river. This poet lived about the time of Shahogi Rajah; in his infancy he learned the Maharata language, and made many verses in honor of the Divinity. In the sixteenth year of his age, he died at Satarah.