<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Telugu literature or Telugu Pandityam (Telugu: తెలుగు పాండిత్యము) is the body of works written in the Telugu language . It consists of poems, novels, short stories, dramas and puranas . Telugu literature can be traced back to the early 10th century period (Prabandha Ratnavali (1918) talk about the existence of Jain Telugu literature during 850 - 1000AD) followed by 11th century period when Mahabharata was first translated to Telugu from Sanskrit by Nannaya . It flourished under the rule of the Vijayanagara Empire, where Telugu was one of the empire's official languages . </P> <P> Telugu split from Proto - Dravidian between 1500 - 1000 BC . Telugu became a distinct language by the time any literary activity began to appear in the Tamil land, along with Parji, Kolami, Nayaki and Gadaba languages . </P>

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