INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nannaya-the Adi Kavi (the first poet) Nannayabhatta (1022–1063 CE – also referred to as Nannaya), started to translate the Sanskrit Mahabharata into Telugu on the request of the East Chalukya king Rajaraja Narendra.

Detailed explanation-2: -Andhra Mahabharatham is the Telugu version of Mahabharatha written by Kavitrayam (Trinity of poets), consisting of Nannayya, Thikkana, and Yerrapragada. The three poets translated the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into Telugu over the period of 11-14th century AD and became the idols for all the following poets.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mahabharat was originally written by Veda Vyasa in Sanskrit. Three poets first successfully translated the greatest epic into Telugu and are also famously known as Kavithrayam. They are Sri Nannaya, Sri Tikkana, Sri Yerrapragada.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tikkana translated the final 15 chapters, but did not undertake translating the half-finished Aranya Parvamu. The Telugu people remained without this last translation for more than a century, until it was translated by Errana. Tikkana is also called Tikkana Somayaji, as he completed the Somayaga.