Srivijaya Kavirajamargam

The Kavirajamargam (The Way of the King of Poets), the first extant work of early Kannada, was composed in the ninth century by poet-scholar Srivijaya in the court of King Nrpatunga of Manyakheta. The Kavirajamargam magnificently defines and illustrates poetic ornaments of sound and sense (alank \ aras), elucidates important features of early Kannada grammar and prosody, and offers us a glimpse in...