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It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Kannada literature and is referred to as the Bhagavad Gita in Kannada. [1] The title of the work can be translated as "Dull Thimma's Rigmarole". [2] [3] Kagga is a collection of 945 poems, each being four lines in length. Some of these poems are written in old Kannada. Kagga poems are profound as well ...
The Kannada script is an abugida, where when a vowel follows a consonant, it is written with a diacritic rather than as a separate letter. There are also three obsolete vowels, corresponding to vowels in Sanskrit. Written Kannada is composed of akshara or kagunita, corresponding to syllables. The letters for consonants combine with diacritics ...
Kannada poetry has been traced back to around 5th century A.D, though none of those early works have been found. The earliest extant poetry in tripadi meter are the Kappe Arabhatta records of 700 C.E. The first well known Kannada poet was Adikavi Pampa who wrote in an archaic style of Kannada called Halegannada (figuratively
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. Nissar Ahmed, once quoted as "he understood the minds of children, and their need.
Kokkare Hosahalli Shekh Haider Nissar Ahmed (5 February 1936 – 3 May 2020 [1]) was an Indian poet and writer in the Kannada language. [2] [3] He was awarded the Padma Shri (2008), [4] the Rajyotsava Award (1981) and the Pampa award for his work (2017).
Ragale (Kannada: ರಗಳೆ Ragaḷe) is a type of meter in Kannada prosody that is used in Kannada poetry. This meter can usually have as many padas of syllables divided into two groups of various fixed number of matra in each line. It is the most prevalent meter of the Old Kannada poets Harihara and Raghavanka. [1]
Ferdinand Kittel (1832–1903), Christian missionary and Kannada writer. The nascent beginnings of modern Kannada literature can be traced to the early 19th century under the stewardship of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, the ruler of the princely state of Mysore, and court poets who attempted to steer away from the ancient champu form of prose and popularize prose renderings of Sanskrit ...
The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada and it was later adopted to write Telugu language. [4] The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script.