Annamayya ranks among the immortal names in Telugu literature and religion.He was a legend, a poet whose muse was Balaji, the lord of the seven hills. Annamayya did marry two women, his own nieces.More factually, Annamayya was the court poet of Narasimha Raya of the Penukonda satrapy. On being appointed court poet, was asked to come up with a ditty celebrating his earthly patron; and promptly refused. When you refuse a king, you get bunged in prison, which is where the saintly poet found himself; till the ubiquitous Balaji intervened, in miraculous fashion, to procure his release. The king not only repented but, to no one's surprise, became a staunch devotee of the patron deity of Tirupathi.