Raghunatha Nayak ruled Thanjavur from 1600 to 1634 and is remembered as much for his Sanskrit scholarship and patronage of Telugu literature as for his administration — he authored works himself and kept a court of poets that rivaled anything in contemporary Deccan politics. His copper kasu issues circulated within a regional economy still largely independent of Mughal monetary influence, the Nayaka successor states having retained effective autonomy long after the fall of Vijayanagara at Talikota in 1565.
Raghunatha Nayak ruled Thanjavur from 1600 to 1634 and is remembered as much for his Sanskrit scholarship and patronage of Telugu literature as for his administration — he authored works himself and kept a court of poets that rivaled anything in contemporary Deccan politics. His copper kasu issues circulated within a regional economy still largely independent of Mughal monetary influence, the Nayaka successor states having retained effective autonomy long after the fall of Vijayanagara at Talikota in 1565.