Mahakavi Nandi Thimmana was a Telugu poet and an Ashtadiggaja in the imperial court of Emperor Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara. He is often called Mukku Thimmana (lit. 'Thimmana of the nose') after his celebrated poem on a woman's nose.
<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the pārijāta for Satyabhama—but she...</span><br></p>
