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[1] [3] Though Kesiraja followed the model of Sanskrit grammar of the Katantra school and that of earlier writings on Kannada grammar, his work has an originality of its own. [ 4 ] Shabdamanidarpanam is the earliest extant work of its kind, and narrates scientifically the principles of old Kannada language and is a work of unique significance.
The first Kannada translation of the Kural text was made by Rao Bahadur R. Narasimhachar around 1910, who translated select couplets into Kannada. It was published under the title Nitimanjari, in which he had translated 38 chapters from the Kural, including 28 chapters from the Book of Virtue and 10 chapters from the Book of Polity. [1]
Daatu (meaning: cross) is a novel by Kannada writer S L Bhyrappa for which he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 1975. [1] The Book has story which goes through the complex caste system that is deep rooted into Indian society demonstrated through the characters. This book has been translated to 14 major Indian Languages. [2]
Kannada is a highly inflected language with three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter or common) and two numbers (singular and plural). It is inflected for gender, number and tense, among other things. The first available Kannada book, a treatise on poetics, rhetoric and basic grammar is the Kavirajamarga from 850 AD.
Modern Kannada literature was cross-fertilized by the colonial period in India as well., [132] [133] with translations of Kannada works and dictionaries into European languages as well as other Indian languages, and vice versa, and the establishment of European style newspapers and periodicals in Kannada. In addition, in the 19th century ...
He wrote an English-Kannada dictionary that is a standard reference text for students. Rao worked for government colleges before gaining a position at Bangalore University's English department. He was the first president of the Kannada Book Trust. [1] Rao won the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award for his work English Sahitya Charitre. [2]
Nijaguna Shivayogi was an Indian poet and a prolific writer in the Kannada language. He lived in the 15th century. He lived in the 15th century. He was a follower of the Veerashaiva faith (devotee of the Hindu god Shiva ), which he attempted to reconcile with the Advaita Hinduism of Adi Shankaracharya . [ 1 ]
Grahabanga (Kannada: ಗೃಹಭಂಗ) is a well-known novel by one of the most important novelists in Kannada S L Bhyrappa. The plot depicts rural India, starts around the 1920s and ends around the 1940s. The story has the heroic struggle of a woman against her idiotic husband, vicious mother-in-law, superstitious neighbors and pervading ...