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the king alloted to Pampa, Dharmavura, the best of agrahāras which was glittering like the treasury of the king. The village Dharmuvura in Bacce-sasira division with which Pampa was endowed with has been identified with Gangadharam or a nearby place which is extinct.
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5.6.2.3. Pampa belonged to the lineage of Kondakunda anvaya, desiga-gaṇa, pustaka (Sarsvati) gaccha (bali). He introduces himself as a parrot sitting pretty in the serene garden of Kondakunda anvaya. He had the following titles: Kavita-guṇārṇava, Purāṇa-kavi, sukavi jana-manomānasōttamsa-hamsa, Sarasvati-maṇihāra and samsarasarodaya. He was savya-saci, equally at home both in the art of war and to drive quill. A host of later literati, irrespective of their religion, have paid glorious tributes to the literarum doctor Pampa. His sweet and flowing style is valued highly by critics. Pampa, as a self critic, has assessed his works and has remarked that his poem is always new and dignified as a sea; there can be no better evaluation.
5.6.2.4. Pampa vibrates with zest for life. He explored new vistas and made enormous cultural excavations, in the process, exploiting the creative possibilities of Kannada language, and exploding the uni-dimensional quality of Kannada literary tradition. He has employed the standard Kannada dialect of his time, spoken around the northKarṇāṭaka region; it was then called as the Puligere Kannada, the place considered as the cream centre of cultural and socio-political activities.
5.6.2.4.1. Pampa had some advantages and a solid infrastructure; the literary stage was all set for the arrival of a greater author. Śrīvijaya, Guṇanandi, Gunavarma-I, had deviated from the scholastic tradition of writing only the glosses or commentaries on primordial Prakrit āgāma texts, and had evolved a new trend of taking theme from calssics and writing long poems in campu style. In addition to this
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