Tenali Ramakrishna

Tenali Ramakrishna (b. n.d. ; d. n.d.) was a sixteenth-century Telugu poet in the court of the Vijayanagara ruler Krishnadevaraya and one of the astadiggajas or eight prominent Telugu poets patronised by the court. He was the author of several works of religious verse, including Udbhataradhya Charita, Panduranga Mahatmya and Ghatikachala Mahatmya.