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From this verse we find that the manuscript is
dated A.D. 1588. From the way in which we find the
verse written, there are reasons to think that it
is a composition of the scribe and not of the
author of the work. This does not mean that the
author did not live up to A.D. 1588. He might, or might
not have lived. Now therefore the date of Ratnakheta
Dikşita may be fixed between the last quarter of the
fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth
century.
Tradition goes to say that Cevvappa was of humble
Cevvappa.
parentage and through his own skill
and tact rose to the position of
the King of Tanjore. Govinda Dīkṣita was his master at
Vijayanagaram and when he rose to the position of the
King of Tanjore, he brought with him Govinda and
appointed him minister of the kingdom. The following
is the family table of Cevvappa.
Timmanāyaka =Vayyamāmbā
Cinnacevva Mürtyambika
Acyutabhupa
Mürtyambikā
Raghunatha Nayaka.
Mr. T.S. Kuppusvami Sastri in his "A Short History
of the Tanjore Princes" gives the following dates for
these Nayaks.
From this verse we find that the manuscript is
dated A.D. 1588. From the way in which we find the
verse written, there are reasons to think that it
is a composition of the scribe and not of the
author of the work. This does not mean that the
author did not live up to A.D. 1588. He might, or might
not have lived. Now therefore the date of Ratnakheta
Dikşita may be fixed between the last quarter of the
fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth
century.
Tradition goes to say that Cevvappa was of humble
Cevvappa.
parentage and through his own skill
and tact rose to the position of
the King of Tanjore. Govinda Dīkṣita was his master at
Vijayanagaram and when he rose to the position of the
King of Tanjore, he brought with him Govinda and
appointed him minister of the kingdom. The following
is the family table of Cevvappa.
Timmanāyaka =Vayyamāmbā
Cinnacevva Mürtyambika
Acyutabhupa
Mürtyambikā
Raghunatha Nayaka.
Mr. T.S. Kuppusvami Sastri in his "A Short History
of the Tanjore Princes" gives the following dates for
these Nayaks.