Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The sources of Vijayanagara history (its origin, social and political life and eventual defeat) are the accounts of foreign travelers and contemporary literary sources in Sanskrit, Kannada, Persian and Telugu. The Portuguese visitors to the empire were Domingo Paes (1522), Fernão Nunes (1537), [161] Duarte Barbosa (1516) and Barradas (1616).
Telugu script (Telugu: తెలుగు లిపి, romanized: Telugu lipi), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
Kannada (/ ˈkɑːnədə, ˈkæn -/; [4][5] ಕನ್ನಡ, IPA: [ˈkɐnːɐɖa]), formerly also known as Canarese, [6] is a classical Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or ...
t. e. The Telugu–Kannada script (or Kannada–Telugu script) was a writing system used in Southern India. Despite some significant differences, the scripts used for the Telugu and Kannada languages remain quite similar and highly mutually intelligible. Satavahanas and Chalukyas influenced the similarities between Telugu and Kannada scripts.
Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. [1] Attestations in literature span one and a half millennia, [2][3][4][5][6] with some specific literary works surviving in rich manuscript traditions, extending from the 9th century to ...
Gidde Gowda. Parent (s) Kempananje Gowda, Lingamma. Kempe Gowda I (27 June 1510 — 1569) locally venerated as Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda, [2][3] or commonly known as Kempe Gowda, was a governor under the Vijayanagara Empire in early-modern India. [4][5] He is famous for the development of Bangalore Town in the 16th century.
The Chalukyas therefore governed both the Karnataka and Andhra countries and patronised Telugu as well. This very likely led to a close connection to Kannada literature. A number of Telugu authors of the age also wrote in Kannada Nannaya-Bhatta's Bharata includes the Akkara, a metre considered unique to
Culture of Karnataka. 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. Many inscriptions related to Jainism have been unearthed.