8/31/2023 0 Comments Tenali rama old![]() Once the king invited his courtiers to a feast in which the brinjal was served. No one was allowed to view the garden without the king’s permission, let alone taste the brinjal. King Krishnadeva Rai had some superior quality brinjal or aubergine plants growing in his private garden. Tenali Rama was also a great scholar of several languages that included Marathi, Tamil and Kannada. ![]() His fame spread beyond Vijaynagar (present-day Andhra Pradesh), to areas that come in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka today. Stories, about Tenali Rama and his practical jokes on everyone around him including distinguished fellow poets and the emperor himself, abound in south India. Clown, jester, poet…Tenali Rama, minister in the court of the ruler of Vijaynagar, Krishnadeva Rai (reign: 1509-30), was a lot of things.
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