Editing Literary Achievements of King Krishnadevaraya (section)

=== ''Āmuktamālyada'' ===
''Āmuktamālyada'' is an epic poetry written on ''Godhādevi''<ref>Bhakti and Puranic Traditions in South India c. 700-1200 CE https://www.academia.edu/13012071/Bhakti_and_Puranic_Traditions_in_South_India_c_700_1200_CE</ref> who offered worn garlands to lord ''Śrīnivāsa''. This ''kāvya'' gives all the ingredients required to write up a play around the plot, which is socially relevant, as it is a story of a simple girl, daughter of a priest, who was true to her devotion. The eight verses in the beginning that narrate Krishnadevaraya’s dream are highlight of the work. This dream sequence itself could be developed as a beautiful plot and presented as a ''bhāṇa'' for the very potential that it holds<ref>Adapa Ramakrishna Rao in his work called ''Makers of Indian Litearture'' writes about ''Āmuktamālyada'' as an amalgamation of three different cultures – a ''triveṇi sangama'' of Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada cultures. Srinivasa Reddy who has translated the work into English called ''‘Giver of the worn Garland Krishnadevarāya’s Āmuktamālyada’,'' Penguin books, observes the same about ''Āmuktamālyada''.</ref>''.'' The king in the beginning of the poem describes a dream that he had where lord Vishnu himself came in his dream and asked to write about this story in Telugu<ref>History of Telugu literature<nowiki/>https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ddca/fe35eb606567d8e086b258679c9abdc71e35.pdf</ref> language. 
[[File:Shastri page 1907.jpg|thumb|(Shastri, 1907)The verses go as “being well versed in all languages, you composed ''Madālasa Carita, Satyabhāmā Pariṇaya, Sakalakathāsārasaṅgraha, Jñānacintāmaṇi, rasamañjari'' and other ''śṛṅgāra kāvyas'' in Sanskrit and now can’t you in compose in ''Āndhra bhāṣa''?” (Reddy, 2011) . ]]
The dream sequence described here shows the king’s sensitivity to different cultures and intention of binding the two regional cultures. He has done his best to bring the core of Tamil culture<ref>THE POETRY OF THE TAMIL SAINTS https://www.proquest.com/openview/dd99550e4c05e4f80dfcc99a8a266582/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y</ref> into Telugu literature. He also states in the beginning that Vishnu asked in his dream to compose this poem to remove the revulsion or disgust that is attached to the fact that he accepted the used garlands; and to compose this in Telugu language particularly. This reflects the king’s social concern. On introspection it is understood that there is a keen intention to remove social discrimination. Here through this the king has also hit the right chords like women empowerment by choosing a female protagonist as his hero in the poetry. He did this by choosing ''Godhadevi’s'' narrative instead of creating some fictional story or abstract concepts in the name of social importance. It can be used by the playwrights of present day to write a ''nāṭaka'' of five acts, as the plot has got all the potential characteristics of a ''nāṭaka''.