Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Thimmakka (15th Century) was a famous Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 poet who wrote Subhadra Kalyanam in Telugu. She was wife of famous singer-poet Annamacharya

Annamacharya

Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya was the official songmaster of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, and a Telugu composer who composed around 36000 keertana songs, many of which were in praise of Venkateswara, the presiding deity of the temple...

 and was popularly known as Timmakka.

Early life

Timmakka was born in Brahmin's family . She is considered as the first Telugu poetess.

Her works

Timmakka's main work, Subhadra Kalyanam with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of Arjuna

Arjuna

Arjuna in Indian mythology is the greatest warrior on earth and is one of the Pandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Arjuna, whose name means 'bright', 'shining', 'white' or 'silver' Arjuna (Devanagari: अर्जुन, Thai: อรชุน, Orachun, Tamil: Arjunan, Indonesian and Javanese: Harjuna,...

 and Subhadra

Subhadra

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, characters in Hindu

Hindu

Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 epic Mahabharata

Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....

. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

epic.

External links

• A Great Compilation of Telugu poets / poetesses
• A List of almost all telugu women poets
• Telugu women poets in Last 1000 years
• Tirmula pages on Tallapaka family
• AnnamayyaKeerthanalu ( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English)