Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Molli
MOLLI.
This poetess was the daughter of a potter, and flourished during the reign of Krishna Deva Maharayuloo. Her parents had her well educated, and her genius expanded with her age. She had so fertile an invention, that according to tradition she composed the story of Ramayana, while her hair was drying after bathing: this work was widely disseminated after publication, and much admired by the learned, and used at, public schools and other seminaries.