Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Keladi Basavappa Naik

3118733Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets — Keladi Basavappa NaikCavelly Venkata Ramaswamie

KELADI BASAVAPPA NAICK.

Was a ruler of Keladi in the Bednore country, he lived in the sixteenth century of the Salivahana aera. There is a work in existence called Seva Tatva Ratna Kara, or the ocean of preeminence of Seva, of which he is the ostensible author, but it is well known that the work was composed by the pundits of his Court—it treats on several Arts and Sciences, and seems to have been executed with much labor.