Nachana Somanatha

Nachana Somanatha was a Telugu poet of the Vijayanagara Empire in the fourteenth century. An inscription dated to 1344, though other readings give different dates, records that King Bukka Raya I granted him the village of Penchukaladinne, also called Bukka-raya-puram.

He translated the Sanskrit Harivamsa into Telugu as the Uttara-Harivamsamu and composed the Vasanta Vilasamu, an early prabandha work now lost. He helped shift Telugu verse from the Puranic manner toward the polished kavya style later perfected by Srinatha.