 After primary education he joined Vizianagaram Samsthanam as temple servant and posted at Ramatirtham, Padmanabham, Simachalam and Srikurmam.He was the Court (Asthana) poet of First Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju of Vizianagaram and wrote "Mrutyunjaya Vilasam", "Simhadri Narasimha Satakam", "Lakshminarayana Samvadam" and "Sundarimani Satakam".He used to live in Devupalli village in his last days and died in 1790.