Author: Amoghavarsa [814 - 880] [Shanker Kedilaya, A.; editor]
Title: Karnataka Kavirajamargam
Description: Madras, University of Madras, 1973. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, (44),170 pp, Flyleaves discolored. Several pinholes to binding.. Some rubbing. Good. In a rubbed & chipped dustwrapper. ¶ Text in Kannada characters. Includes a 6-page English preface. [ "... Karnataka Kavirajamargam is the earliest available work on literary criticism in Kannada, and it gives an account of the scholars and poets that flourished at the Court of Nrpatunga, and also of the literary personages that lived in earlier times. It treats vividly of the literary forms and conventions of the time, and also provides an insight into the social and political conditions that obtained in those early days".

Keywords: Kannara Philology, Karnataka, Literary Criticism, Poetics Poetry, History, Language, India South Asia, Medieval, Literature