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The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Empire. [13] [14] Kannada has an unbroken literary history of around 1200 years. [15]
A replica of the original Halmidi inscription at Halmidi village. The Halmidi inscription is the oldest known Kannada-language inscription in the Kadamba script.While estimates vary slightly, the inscription is often dated to between 450 CE - 500 CE.
578 CE Mangalesha Kannada inscription in Cave temple # 3 at Badami 634CE Aihole inscription of Ravi Kirti. About 25,000 inscriptions found in Karnataka and nearby states [1] belong to historic Kannada rulers, including the Kadambas, the Western Ganga Dynasty, the Rashtrakuta, the Chalukya, the Hoysala and the Vijayanagara Empire.
The Kannadigas or Kannaḍigaru [a] (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು [b]), often referred to as Kannada people, are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who natively speak Kannada South Indian state of Karnataka in India and its surrounding regions. [5] The Kannada language belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. [6]
India became Independent in 1947, and according to the States Reorganization Act, 1956, the Kannada-speaking areas of Hyderabad State, Madras State were unified with Mysore State. The state was renamed as Karnataka in 1973.
[53] [54] The first example of a full-length Kannada language stone inscription (shilashaasana) containing Brahmi characters with characteristics attributed to those of protokannada in Hale Kannada (Old Kannada) script can be found in the Halmidi inscription, dated c. 450, indicating that Kannada had become an administrative language by this time.
After Indian independence in August 1947, Bangalore remained in the Mysore State of which the Maharaja of Mysore was the Rajapramukharu. [17] The Vidhana Soudha. Bangalore continued to be the capital of the unified and linguistically homogeneous Kannada-speaking new Mysore state that was created in 1956, and renamed to Karnataka in 1973.
The Hoysala kingdom was a Kannada dynasty originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, parts of Tamilnadu and South-Western Telangana between the 10th and the 14th centuries.