Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Timmakka ( te, తాళ్ళపాక తిరుమలమ్మ) (15th century) was a

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poet who wrote ''Subhadra Kalyanam'' in Telugu. She was wife of singer-poet

Annamacharya Tallapaka Annamacharya (Telugu : తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య) ( IAST: taḷḷapāka annamācārya; 22 May 1408 – 4 April 1503), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a 15th-century Hindu saint and the ea ...

and was popularly known as Timmakka.

Biography

Timmakka was born into a Brahmin's family. She is considered as the first Telugu woman poet.Timmakka at Telugu women author list
/ref> Timmakka's main work, ''Subhadra Kalyanam'' with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of

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and

Subhadra Subhadra ( sa, सुभद्रा, Subhadrā) is a Hindu goddess mentioned in ancient Hindu scriptures like the ''Mahabharata'' and the ''Bhagavata Purana''. She is described as the favourite child of Vasudeva and the younger sister of de ...

, characters in

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epic

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kuruk ...

. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from

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epic.

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A compilation of Telugu poets

A list of almost all Telugu women poets

AnnamayyaKeerthanalu
( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English) Telugu poets 15th-century Indian poets Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Kadapa district People from Rayalaseema Indian women poets Poets from Andhra Pradesh Women of the Vjayanagara Empire Vijayanagara poets {{India-poet-stub

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