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The Kannada flag, used as an emblem of Kannada culture. Rajyotsava Day is celebrated with great joy and vigour all over Karnataka. The entire state wears a festive look on this day as the red and yellow Kannada flags are hoisted at different strategic locations across the state and the Kannada anthem ("Jaya Bharatha Jananiya Tanujate") is ...
Prabandha is a literary genre of medieval Indian Sanskrit literature.The prabandhas contain semi-historical anecdotes about the lives of famous persons.They were written primarily by Jain scholars of western India (Gujarat and Malwa) from 13th century onwards.
G. P. Rajarathnam (1909–1979), [2] known by his pen name as Bhramara (meaning:Bee), [3] was a Kannada author, lyricist and poet in Karnataka, India. [4] [5] [6] Rajarathnam was well known for composing poems for children.
They drew upon several Kannada folk sources such as the lullaby, koluhaDu, udayaraga, suvvakke, sobane, gundakriya etc., to enrich Carnatic musical forms. Early prabandha forms, such as gadya, churnika, dandaka, shukasarita, umatilaka and sudarshana, were revived. They innovated with vrittanama.
Prabandha can be described as a story in verse form with a tight metrical structure. Srinatha's Srungara Naishadhamu is a well-known example of the form. [8]He is also credited with hundreds of extempore poems called Chatuvulu in Telugu.
He also hypothesized that, compared to possibly contemporaneous Sanskrit inscriptions, "Halmidi inscription has letters which are unsettled and uncultivated, no doubt giving an impression, or rather an illusion, even to the trained eye, that it is, in date, later than the period to which it really belongs, namely the fifth century A.D." [10]
The rulers patronised Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit and Tamil scholars who wrote in the Jain, Virashaiva and Vaishnava traditions. The period produced hundreds of works on all aspects of Indian culture, religion, biographies, prabhanda s (stories), music, grammar, poetics and medicine.
Jaanapada is a word made by two words Jana - People or tribe Pada - a kind of short verse joined as a sandhi- a grammatical term. The folk culture and colloquial tongue of Kannadiga and probably Telugu people were known by this name from time the languages came into existence.