God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati - Paperbackby Annamayya (Author), Velcheru Narayana Rao (Author), David Shulman (Author) The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre modern India. Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the