Tenali Ramakrishna was the author of Panduranga Mahamatyam. He is one of the eight eminent scholars of Telugu known as the ‘Ashta diggajas’ who adorned the court of Krishna Deva Raya.
Some of the activities which were prevalent during the Delhi Sultanate period are as follows: religious persecution, prohibition of public worship and destruction of temples. These was often vigorously enforced by the early Muslim rulers.