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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 Bengaluru Pete in the 16th century. Kempegowda erected many Kannada inscriptions across the region. [6] [7] [8]
[6] Brahmagiri rock inscription of Ashoka. Ashoka rock edict at Brahmagiri in Chitradurga district is the ancient site of Ishila. An inscription there contains this most ancient Kannada word. The earliest recorded word of Kannada is Isila occurring in the Brahmagiri rock inscription of 252 BC (similar to many other inscriptions with Kannada ...
One of the four Kempegowda built towers which signified the town limits of early Bangalore is located in Lalbagh. The Kempe Gowda Museum is housed is the first floor of the heritage building of Mayo Hall. The building has been painted in the Cantonment colors of red and white. Mayo Hall's upper storey was earlier reserved for public meetings ...
He is known to have patronised poets and issued inscriptions in languages as varied as Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Tamil. Krishnadevaraya himself was a polyglot, fluent in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu and Tamil. The official language of the Vijayanagara court was Kannada. [50] Krishnadevaraya patronized literature in various languages.
Popular metres from the 9th century onwards when Kannada literature is available are the champu-kavyas or just champu, [2] vachana [3] sangatya, [4] shatpadi, [5] ragale, [6] tripadi, [7] and kavya. [8] The Jain scholars wrote mostly about the life of Tirthankars and about princes and persons who attained sainthood. These writings are called ...
S. Srikanta Sastri authored about 12 books, 224 articles [100 in English, 114 in Kannada, 8 in Telugu, 1 in Sanskrit & Hindi] and three monographs and book reviews in Kannada, English, Telugu and Sanskrit. [37] Among his earliest essays were "Kannada Nayananda" and "Shivaganga Kshetra" - a treatise on the religious centre of Shivaganga.
Arebhashe (Kannada: ಅರೆಭಾಷೆ, Arebhāṣe) or Aregannada or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of Kannada mainly by Gowda communities in the region Madikeri, Somwarpet, and Kushalnagar taluks of Kodagu district,(Coorg),Sullia and Puttur taluks of Dakshina Kannada district, As well as Bandadka, Kasaragod District in the Indian state of Kerala.
The prose piece of Chavundaraya, who was a famous Ganga minister and army commander, known as Chavundaraya Purana (or Trishashtilakshana mahapurana) written in 978 CE, is an early existing work in the genre in Kannada and is a summary of the Sanskrit writings, Adipurana and Uttarapurana, written by Jinasena and Gunabhadra during the rule of Rashtrakuta Amoghavarsha I.