Rādhikā-sāntvanam

According to Dru Bhattacharya, The precise date of composition is unknown, but we can infer that Muddupalani was at least a young woman when she wrote the work (e.g. 18-24 years of age or circa 1757-1763) and that it was crafted while Maharaja Singh was still presiding over the royal court (ie.

[1]The work comprises four sections, between them consisting of five hundred and eighty-four poems, and belonged to the genre of śṛṅgāra-kāvya or śṛṅgāra-prabandham,[2] 'a genre associated in the history of Telugu literature with the Thanjavur era' whose poems were mostly inventive retellings of the story of Radha and Krishna, evoking the rāsa of Sringara.

[6]The poem is unique in Telugu literature for portraying a woman (Radha) taking in initiative in trying to have sex with a man.

[7] This passage, spoken by Krishna, provides a convenient example of the poem's style and content: The work was at the time 'considered a gem of Telugu literature', but never gained wider attention beyond Andhra Pradesh.

In 1911 the British colonial authorities banned this and eight other titles by the same publisher (albeit without great success); the order was not rescinded until 1947.