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To sum up, KK's influence on some of the Kannada poets is great. The nature of this influence is of course in details of Jaina metaphysics, ontology, epistemology and mysticism. Here Kannada poets have borrowed his ideas and terminology even. As far as the subject matter of Kannada Jain Purānas is concerned, their main source was Mahāpurāna of Jinasena and Gunabhadra and also of course Vāgārrha Sangraha or Trişaști Puruşapurāņa of Kaviparamesthi. It may also be recalled here that there are some Kannada commentaries on KK's three important works-Samayasāra, Pañcāstikāya and Pravacanasāra.
References :
Kamala Hampana
: 'Umasvati and Kannada Poets', Paper read at
the Conference on Umasvati, Mysore 1977 : (ed) Cāmundarāyapurāna (in the Press)
(ed) Bharatesa Vaibhava, 1966
Upadhye, Dr. A.N.
: (ed) Pravacanasāra, II, 1964 (ed) Kārtikeyānuprekşā 1960
Nägarājayya, Hampa : (ed) Nāgakumāra Satpadi, 1977
: (ed) Salvabharata, 1976 : (ed) Songs of Ratnākaravarņi (in the Press)
Brahmmappa, G
: Prābhịtatraya (with Kannada commentary), 1971
Narasimhachar, Dr.
D. L.
: (ed) Voddārādhane, 4th edition, 1970
Chakravarthy, Prof. A.: (ed) Pañcāstikāya
: (ed) Tirukkural
This paper was presented in a Seminar on Kunda Kundacarya organised by the Post-Graduate Department of Prakrit and Jainology of the Mysore University, Mysore (2-5 Oct, 1977).
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