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Gangadevi
Gangadevi was a 14th-century poet and princess of the Vijayanagara Empire, wife of the prince Kumara Kampana. Her Sanskrit poem Madhura Vijayam, also called Vira Kamparaya Charitam, describes her husband's campaigns against the Sambuvarayas and the Madurai Sultanate. It is a valuable historical source and one of the few known works by a medieval Indian woman poet.
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