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Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Rai was born on 8 June 1915 to Duggappa and Deyyakka Rai in a Tulu-speaking [8] Bunt family. [1] His given name is unique since it includes the Kannada alphabet 'ಞ' (a palatal consonant pronounced nasally as "nya"), which is used very rarely in the written Kannada of today and is absent in the English alphabet which often leads to various other transliterations of his given name such as ...
Essential collections of teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, as written by his followers, three centuries later. Tripiṭaka: Puranas: Historic texts (usually about a royal lineage or local legends) - written by court-appointed historians. Usually contrasted with historical descriptions in vedas, brahmanas, etc., that are written by priests.
These Kannada inscriptions (Old Kannada, Kadamba script) are found on historical hero stones, coins, temple walls, pillars, tablets and rock edicts. They have contributed towards Kannada literature and helped to classify the eras of Proto Kannada, Pre Old Kannada, Old Kannada, Middle Kannada and New Kannada. Inscriptions depict the culture ...
Srikantaiah, at the behest of T. S. Venkannayya wrote Rakshasana Mudrike, [19] which was a Kannada version of the popular Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa [20] [21] authored originally by Vishakadatta in 3rd century B. C. [6] Srikantaiah's work on Kannada grammar titled Kannada Madhyama Vyakarana [22] was first published in 1939 and was a standard ...
Nāgavarma I (c. 990) was a noted Jain writer and poet in the Kannada language in the late 10th century. His two important works, both of which are extant, are Karnātaka Kādambari, a champu (mixed prose-verse metre) based romance novel and an adaptation of Bana's Sanskrit Kādambari, and Chandōmbudhi (also spelt Chhandombudhi, lit, "Ocean of prosody" or "Ocean of metres"), the earliest ...
Of the c. 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India, about 60,000 were in Tamil Nadu;. [6] Over 25,000 Kannada inscriptions were unearthed in Karnataka, though an in depth study of many of these is yet to be conducted according to Hampi Kannada University Sociology department Head and Researcher Devara Kondareddy. [7]
Chaturvedi was the first teacher of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. [13] In 2011 he took part in the India Against Corruption campaign. [17] He lived in Jayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India [4] and in 2010 stated he was still working for eight hours every day. [7] This included an hour-long lecture he gave on the Vedas every Saturday.