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.
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.
Jalauddin Rumi who was a great Sufi mystic and poet, founded the Order of the Whirling Dervishes in the thirteenth century. He was born in Afghanistan in 1207 CE.