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work in Kannada called Kavyasära.1
Equally remarkable names from the point of view of Kannada literature are those of Sālva and Doddayya. The former was the author of Bhārata, Sāradāvilāsa and Nemiśvaracarite, and a work on medicine to be mentioned presently. He was the son of Dharmacandra, and the disciple of Śrutakīrti. His royal patron was the king Sālva Malla of the Nagirirājya. Both king Sālva Malla and his sister Maladevi's son by Sāntadaņçeśa, by name Sālva Deva, were the patrons at whose orders Sālva wrote the Kannada Bhārata. From the works of Sālva we learn that his patron Sālva Malla had, among others, the following birudasJinadharmadhvaja, Samyaktva-cudāmaņi and Jinadēvarathayātrāprabhāvaka.2 As regards Doddayya, we know that he belonged to the Atreya gotra, and that his father was the learned nobleman Devappa, who was the best of the accountants at the court of the Cangaļva king Virūparājendra of Piriyapațțaņa. Devappa himself was credited with proficiency in the exposition of the Jina purāņa. Doddayya's guru was Panditamuni. His only work was Candraprabhacarite dealing with the life of the eighth Tīrthankara Candraprabha.
The well known city of Vēnupura (Mūdubidre) in Tuļuva produced Ratnākaranandi, who is known by his great work Trilokaśataka comprising 10,000 verses, which he finished in nine months in the Saka year 1479 (A.D. 1557). He wrote it at the command of his mokşa guru Hassanātha. His other works were Bharateśvaracarite and an anthology of poems known as Padajäti, which latter composition has made him
1. Kavicarite, II, p. 229. 2. Ibid, II, p. 244. 3. Ibid, II, pp. 251-252,
