The king asks for the pardon and requests Him to stay on in his court.The Ego of the King gets hurt and he chains the saint with shakles and imprisons Him.The saint sings a song thinking of Lord VENKATESHWARA with agony.As a result of the spiritual power in his song the chains get broken.Allured by the apparent romantic meaning of the song,king asks the saint to sing similar composition on himself.The saint says that he can only sing the glory of the Lord and not the human.One day saint sings a song in the tradition ofВ вЂњMADHURA BHAKTIвЂќВ (madhurabhakti is a kind of devotion in which the devotee becomes a Heroine and worships the Lord as his own beloved Hero)on the request of the king.

Knowing the greatness and spiritual power of Annamacharya,King SALUVANARASINGARAYA offers a respectable position of a GURU(teacher) to Annamacharya in his royal court.Through the purity of HisВ вЂњSANKEERTANAMANTRASвЂќВ (SANKEERTANA = Devotional songs, MANTRAS = Coined group of divine words which yield various results when uttered for a prescribed period).He sang only for the pleasure of the Almighty and to convey the message for the upliftment of mankind,unmindful of materialistic gains.Saint Annamacharya is the firstВ вЂќ VAGGEYAKARAвЂќВ (a person who can compose lyrics,music and sing) of Telugu Literature.His Son, Peda Tirumalacharya and Grandson, Chinatirumalacharya got the Sankeertanas of Annamacharya engraved on copper-plates and Treasured those Copper Plates in вЂњSankeertana BhandaramвЂќ (a rock-built-cell at TIRUMALA temple). He composed 32,000 Sankeertanas (devotional songs) and dedicated them to Lord Venkateswar. A village in Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh in INDIA.Д¬opper plate containing the Song of Annamacharaya: Annamacharya, The Saint-Composer was born in the year 1408 According to Telugu вЂњPANCHANGAMвЂќ(calendar) the month & star of His birth are : Vyshakha Masam l Vishakha Nakshatram.

Lyrics of annamayya songs