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Tradition has it that Appayya was the son-in-law
 
of Ratnakheta Dikṣita. This need not
i. Appayya Diksita.
militate against the fact that Appayya.
married from the family of a Vaisnava gentleman for
he had two wives according to tradition. This marriage
of Appayya should have taken place while yet he was
young. The works of Appayya numbered more than
a hundred.¹
 
Govinda Dikṣita was a Karnāṭaka Brāhmaṇa of
ii. Govinda Diksita. Vijayanagar. He became a domi-
cile in Tanjore, having come there
 
first during the reign of Cevvappa Nayaka. He was
the Minister of Cevvappa and continued to be in office
during the reign of two of his successors. It is Govinda
Dīkşita that is said to have induced Appayya to write
the famous Parimala. Rājacūḍāmaṇi refers to Govinda
Dīkşita in highly eulogistic terms in his Tantra-
sikhāmaņi. Govinda Dikṣita's Harivamsasăracarita
extended over thirty cantoes and not three as remarked
by Prof. Heras, S. J. in his "Āravidu Dynasty of
Vijayanagar". (Page 522.)
 
He is the son of Govinda Dikṣita and author of
a kavya called Raghunathabhupa-
iii. Yajnanarayana vijayam, and another work called
Şahityaratnākara. Rājacuḍāmaṇi
refers to the former in his Anandarāghava thus:
 
Diksita.
 
For further particulars about Appayya, refer to the Journal
of Oriental Research, Vol. II.
 
2 There is an excellent article on Govinda Dīkṣita in the
Quarterly Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society by
Mr. N. K. Venkatesan.