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The '''Kalahastisvara Satakamu''' is a collection of poems composed in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] by [[Dhurjati]], who has been described as an [[Ashtadiggajas|ashtadiggaja]] in the [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagara]] court of [[Krishnadevaraya]].<ref name="gazetteer">{{cite book |last1=Pradesh (India) |first1=Andhra |title=Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers |date=1979 |publisher=Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press; [copies can be had from: Government Publication Bureau, Andhra Pradesh] |page=169 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Andhra_Pradesh_District_Gazetteers/6LZhAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv |language=en}}</ref> The poems are dedicated to the form of [[Shiva]] venerated at the [[Srikalahasteeswara temple|Kalahasti temple]].<ref name = "UC">{{cite book |last1=Heifetz |first1=Hank |last2=Narayana Rao |first2=Velcheru |title=For the Lord of the animals ; poems from the Telugu: the Kāḷahastīśvara śatakamu of Dhūrjaṭi |date=1987 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=9780520056695}}</ref> They are well-known by Telugu-speaking audiences.<ref name = "review">{{cite book |title=Glory of India |date=1987 |publisher=Motilal Banarsides |page=33 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Glory_of_India/1WpDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv |language=en}}</ref><ref name = "dissertation">{{cite journal |last1=Vakulabharanam |first1=Rajagopal |title=Self and society in transition: A study of modern autobiographical practice in Telugu - ProQuest |journal=www.proquest.com |url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/self-society-transition-study-modern/docview/305109980/se-2 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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A [[Shataka|Satakamu]] text generally comprises a collection of one hundred poems<ref name = "review"/> in praise of a deity.<ref name = "Sax">{{cite journal |last1=Sax |first1=W. S. |title=Review of Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |date=1992 |volume=112 |issue=4 |pages=656–658 |doi=10.2307/604482 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/604482 |issn=0003-0279|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The manuscripts of this text contain somewhere between 21 and 129 poems.<ref name = "UC"/> Each poem ends with an invocation of Shiva, the god of Kalahasti.<ref name = "UC"/> The poems primarily concern [[Bhakti|devotion]]<ref name = "UC"/> to Shiva as a means to [[Moksha|liberation]] from [[karma]].<ref name = "Sax"/><br />
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After the introduction of the printing press in the nineteenth century, print copies of the already popular Kalahastisvara Satakamu circulated among Telugu audiences.<ref name = "dissertation"/> A selection of these poems has been translated by [[Velcheru Narayana Rao]] and [[Hank Heifetz]].<ref name = "UC"/><ref name = "Sax"/> The collection was published by the [[University of California Press]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=JAS volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=November 1988 |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=b1–b29 |doi=10.1017/S0021911800164447 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800164447 |language=en |issn=1752-0401}}</ref><br />
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