Tikkana
Tikkana Somayji | |
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Image of Tikkana | |
| Born | 1205 Paturu, Kovur, Kakatiya Kingdom |
| Died | 1288 Paturu, Kovur, Kakatiya Kingdom |
| Pen name | Tikkana (Thikka Sharma) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable works | Andhra mahabharatam |
Tikkana (1205–1288), also known as Tikkana Somayaji, was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family . He was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)" that translated Mahabharata into Telugu. Nannaya Bhattaraka, the first, translated two and a half chapters of Mahabharata. 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. Tikkana's titles were Kavibrahma and Ubhaya Kavi Mitrudu.