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Gunanandi
J.s.c.-1528-13
Linguistic : | Works on logic, Grammar,
grammar and sāhitya Prosody and
(names ?)
Quoted by the grammarian Bhattākalanka,
and called by him Bhagavan the adorable one.' (c. 900 ).
Glossary
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Kāryāvalokana
Nāgavarma II
This is the fullest work in the language on the
subject of poetic composition. It deals with Grammar, Faults and Elegances of composition, Style and Poetic Conventions copiously illustrated with quotations from earlier writers, as well as original stanzas. (c. 1145 ).
Andayya
Kabbigara-Kāva or Sobagina Suggi or
Madana Vijaya
Poets Defender' or 'Harvest of Beauty' or 'Cupid's Conquest.' The only example in the language without a single tatsama, wholly written in todbhava and dêśya words. (c. 1235 ).
Vastu-Köśa
Nāgavarma II
Sanskrit Kannada glossary the earliest of its kind in Kannada.
Sabdamanidarpana
Kesirāja
* Jewel-Mirror of Grammar,' remains to this day the standard early authority on the Kannada language. (c. 1260 ).