Kumaravyasa biography for kids

Kannada poet

Narayanappa, known by his pen nameKumara Vyasa, was an influential and classical poet of early 15th century in the Kannada language.

His pen name is a tribute to his magnum opus, a rendering of the Mahabharata in Kannada.^[1]Kumara Vyasa literally means "Little Vyasa" or "Son of Vyasa" (Vyasa is the title of Krishna Dwaipayana, the author of Mahabharata).

He was the contemporary and archrival of the famous Veerashaiva poet laureate Chamarasa who wrote the seminal work Prabhulingaleele covering the lives of Allama Prabhu and other Shiva Sharanas, circa 1435.

Kumaravyasa biography for kids

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Both poets worked in the court of Deva Raya II.^[2]

Works

Kumara Vyasa's most famous work, the Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari (the Mahabharata of Karnataka) is popularly known as Gadugina Bharata and Kumaravyasa Bharata.

It is an adaptation of the first ten parvas (chapters) of the Mahabharata. A devotee of Krishna, Kumara Vyasa ends his epic with the c