Chemakura Venkataraju was a Telugu poet in the court of the Thanjavur Nayak king Raghunatha Nayak who ruled from 1600 to 1634.
He wrote Vijayavilasamu, a prabandha on the marriage of the Indian mythological hero Arjuna with Ulupi and Subhadra.
In a preface to the work, Venkataraju heaps praise on Raghunatha Nayak.
Chemakura was the first person to write a prabandha on Sarangadhara, an epic popular in Western India
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