Svasti

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: K S Muddappa Smaraka Trust

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Bibliography of Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah's books
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Candrasagaravarniya Krutigalu (with Sivanna, S.), Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Bangalore, 1989, 208 + xxxii pages. [Popular edition of some works of poet Candrasagaravarni alias Brahmaṇamka, a prolific author of the 18th century]
Vadḍārādhane, Bangalore University, 1993, 166 + vi + 222 pages. [Full text of the earliest extant (800 CE) Kannada prose work by Bhrajisnu. Though the title of the work was Ārādhana-Karṇāṭa-ṭīkā, it is more popular under the name Vadḍārādhane] Tattvārtha Sūtrānugata Karnāta Laghuvrutti, Siddhantakirti Gramthamāle, Hombuja, 1994, 197 + xxx pages. [Earliest extant commentary in Kannada language, on Umāsvāti's Tattvärthasūtra. The Kannada scholiast pontiff Divakaranandi (11th century CE) has rendered it into Kannada with a simple vrutti in prose. He has also quoted 235 Prakrit gāthās]
Hombuja Sasanagalu (with Manjunath, M.G.), Siddhantakirti Granthamale, Hombuja, 1997, 146 pages. [Anthology of inscriptions of Hombuja Kshetra. Prose translation of the inscriptions meant to help the readers to understand the historical and literary importance of these records]
Jaina Katha Kośa (with Kamala Hampana, Padmaprasad, Sarasvati Vijayakumar), Kannada Viśvavidyalaya, Hampi, 1997, 808 + xvi pages. [Matchless treasury of Jaina stories translated into modern Kannada from Ardhamāgadhī, Apabhramsa, Saurasenī, Māhārāṣṭrī, Sanskrit and Old Kannada sources. It contains about 350 stories. Exhaustive and comparative introduction by Prof. Hampana]
Koppala Sasanagalu, Ratnatray Prakasana, Mysore, 1998, 180 pages. [Anthology of newly discovered lithic records by Hampana at Koppala, an ancient Jaina site]
Pampa, Karnataka Sahitya Academi, Bangalore, 1998, 100 pages. [Abridged edition of the Vikramarjuna Vijayam (Pampabharata) and the Adipurānam of poet Pampa (941CE) with brief introduction]
Nompiya Kathegalu, Prasaramga, Kannada University, Hampi, 2001, 449 + xx pages. [Anthology of 84 Vrata-kathas which are most popular in Kannada as nompi stories. Edited by Hampana with the help of palm leaf manuscripts with an exhaustive introduction describing historical, socio-cultural, religious, linguistic and literary aspects. Contains a useful Appendix]
Ponna-Kamalabhava Samputa, Prasaramga, Kannada University, Hampi, 2006, 828 + XLII pages. [Full text edition of the Santipurānam of poet Ponna (965 CE), and the Säntisvarapurāṇam of poet Kamalabhava (1235), the two famous campu classics]
Ranna Samputa, Prasaramga, Kannada University, Hampi, 2006, 324 + XLII pages. [Full text of the Ajita-purana-tilakam and the Sahasa-bhīma-Vijayam of poet Ranna (950-1010 CE), one of the three Jina-samaya-dipaka (Illuminators of Jaina faith) poets of the tenth century Kannada literature. The other two are Pampa (941) and Ponna (965).