Firdausi was a persian poet and the author of Shahnameh also known as “Book of Kings”, which is one of the world’s longest epic and the national epic of Greater Iran.
Krishna Deva Raya himself authored Amukthamalyadha. It is in Telugu. He was known as ‘Abhinava Bhoja’, ‘Andhra Pitamah’, ‘Andhra Bhoja’ as he was great patron of art and literature.