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King Vijayāditya III (844-888). Nripatunga, or Amoghavarsha, a Rashtraküța king (814-877), his work Kavtrājamärga on poetics.
P. 428
Pampa wrote the Adi-purāņa and Vikramärjuna-Vijaya (PampaBharata, in 941) he was a Jain,
Pp. 428-29. Kannada writers of the 10th century; Ponna, author of Santi
purāņa; he received the title Kavichakravarti from the Rāshtrakūta king Krishna III (939-968). In 978, we have Chāmundarāya, author of the Chāmundarāya-purāna and in 993, came Ranna, author of Ajita-puräņa and of Sahasa-Bhima-Vijaya (Gada Yuddha) he l'eceived the title Kavichakravarti from the Chalukya king Tailapa (973-997). At the same time as the two preceding, we have Nāgavarma I, a younger brother of Chāmundaraya, was the author of Chhandombudhi (the first work extant on prosody) and of Kadambari. All three have had as their preceptor Ajitasena, Guru of the Ganga king Rächamalla.
Pp. 429-30. Writers of the '11th century : Sridharāchārya wrote the Jataka
Tilaka (1049), the first work on astrology in the Kannada language; Sāntinātha, author of the poem Sukumära Charite (1068).
Pp. 430-31. Writers of the 12th century : Jain authors : Nāgachandra or
Abhinava-Pampa, author of Rāmachandra-charita-Purana (PampaRamāyana), and of Mallinātha-Purāņa, Nayasena, author of Dharma mrita (1112); Rājāditya, author of Vyavahāra-Ganita and other mathematical works ; Kirtivarma, a Chalukya prince, author of Go-Vaidya, the earliest veterinary work in Kannada ; Brahmasiva, author of Samaya Parikshe; Karnapārya, author of Neminātha-Purana; Nāgavarma II, the Katakachārya (poet laureate) of the Chālukyan king Jagadekamalla II and author of several important works, namely, Kavyävalokana (on poetics), Karnāțaka-Bhasa-Bhushabhūsana (grammar) and Vastukosa (lexicon); Jagaddala Somanatha, author of the medical work Karnataka-Kalyanakaraka; Sumanobāna, the Katakachārya (poet laureate) of the Hoysala king Narasimha I; Vrittaviläsa, author of Dharma-Parikshe and Sastra-Sara; Nemichandra, author of a romance called Lilāvati and a Purāņa called Ardhanemi; Sujanottamsa, author of a panegyric on Gommata; Aggala, author of Chandra-prabha-Purana (1189); Achanna, author of Vardhamana
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