He lived in the Vijayanagara Empire,[1] and claimed to have been born in the family of the famous poet Tikkana.
[2] He highly praises the deity Bhimeshvara of Draksharamam (in present-day Andhra Pradesh).
[3] An ugly man becomes handsome, a bad man becomes good, a fickle one turns stable, a coward is made into a warrior, low-caste becomes high-caste, an idiot achieves wisdom, the crude turns elegant, an illiterate lout becomes expert in all branches of learning— if only he has money.
[4] In the end, the god Shiva resolves the dispute by stating that both looks and money are equally important.
[2] Besides its literary merits, the work is of historical interest as it provides information about the ornaments and dress of the contemporary period.