The first volume consists of Balakanda and Ayodhya Kandas, second volume consists of Aranya and Kishkindha Kandas, third volume consists of Sundara Kanda and the fourth volume consists of Yuddha kanda.
The Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras published this work in four volumes. Unfortunately the whole work is not available. Prahlada, Nārada, Parašara, Pundarika, Vyasa, Ambarisa, Śuka, Saunaka, Bhisma, Dalbhya, Rukmangada, Arjuna, Vaśīstha, and Vibhāşana). The latter work is also a Prabantha in 8 cantoes and deals with the lives of the 14 devotees (Parama Bhakthas, i.e. It is in ten cantos and written in classical prabandha style. The former work is a translation of Satādhyāyi from Garuda Purana describing the greatness of the shrine at Srirangam. His other available works are Srirangamāhātmyamu and Paramabhāgavatacharitra. He is a sincere devotee of God Sri Venkateswara of Tirupati, Varadaraju is a staunch vaishnavite and a disciple of one Etirājācharya. The last Telugu poet whom Varadaraju mentions is Allasani Peddana, the poet laureate in the time of Krishna Devaraya (1509-30). and hence it can be said that Varadaraju was living about 1650 A.D. An inscription states that Varadarāja's father was living in 1637 A.D. The latter ruled at Chandragiri from 1614 to 1632 and is a cousin of our Varadaraju. He is the son of Haridasaraju and his grandfather was Rangappa Raju, an ally of Ramadevarayulu of the Aravidu dynasty. He is a Kshatriya of the solar race and a descendant of the famous Karikala Chola, who constructed the anicut (Kattu in Telugu) on the river Kaveri, from which his house or family name Katta is derived. He is already known to the literary world through the publication of his Prabandha Srirangamāhātmyam in 1921. The author Katta Varadaraju is a 16th-century poet and also a ruler after the Vijayanagara period.
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