TY - BOOK AU - Peddana Allasani AU - Peddana Allasāni AU - Rao, Velcheru Narayana AU - Shulman, David TI - The Story of Manu SN - 9780674427822 U1 - 894.827 PED PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - :Murty Classical Library of India/Harvard University Press KW - Literatures KW - Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of South Asia KW - 1500-1800 KW - 11.92 Hinduism KW - 18.88 Dravidian languages KW - Svārociṣa Manu (Hindu mythology) KW - Telugu poetry 1500-1800 Translations into English KW - Poetry N2 - The Story of Manu, by sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It describes kingship and its exigencies at the time of Krishnadevaraya, Peddana's close friend and patron ER -