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Nannaya
Nannaya was the court poet of the Eastern Chalukya king Rajaraja Narendra at Rajahmundry in the 11th century. He began the translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu, the Andhra Mahabharatam, completing about two and a half of its eighteen books, which were later finished by Tikkana and Errana. He is called the Adikavi, the first poet of Telugu literature.
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