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Annamacharya's copper-plate songs

The Telugu poet Annamacharya sang more than thirty thousand songs to Venkateswara of Tirumala; engraved on copper, they lay forgotten in a temple vault until 1922.

Annamacharya, Venkateswara, Tirumala

South India