\u25c7 Earliest Kannada inscriptions date from the 5th\/6th century onwards, but the oldest surviving piece of literature in this language is the Kavirajamarga (The Royal Road of the Poets), a 9th century work on poetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 The best known poets of the 10th century were Pampa, Ponna, and Ranna, all of whom wrote Jaina Puranas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 Pampa, author of the Adi Purana (an account of the life of the first tirthankara Rishabha or Adinatha), also wrote the Vikramarjunavijaya, based on the Mahabharata story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 Ponna wrote both in Sanskrit and in Kannada, and was given the title of Ubhaya-kavichakravarti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 Chavunda Raya wrote the Trishashtilakshana Mahapurana, an account of the 24 Jaina saints, in continuous prose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 In the 12th century, Nagachandra or Abhinava Pampa wrote the Ramachandracharitra Purana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25c7 Kannada works of the 12th century include Neminatha\u2019s Lilavati which tells the love story of a Kadamba prince and a beautiful princess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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