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Hoysala literature, the Glossary

Hoysala literature is the large body of literature in the Kannada and Sanskrit languages produced by the Hoysala Empire (1025–1343) in what is now southern India.^[1]

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Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (lit), was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta.

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Adikavi Pampa

Pampa, called by the honorific Ādikavi ("First Poet") was a Kannada-language Jain poet whose works reflected his philosophical beliefs.

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Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy and a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience.

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Akka Mahadevi

Akka Mahadevi (Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ, c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature and a prominent member of the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century.

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Amoghavarsha

Amoghavarsha I (also known as Amoghavarsha Nrupatunga I) (r. 814 – 878 CE) was the greatest emperor of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, and one of the most notable monarchs of Early Medieval India.

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Andayya

Andayya (or Andaiah, Āṇḍayya, Kannada: ಆಂಡಯ್ಯ) was a notable 13th-century Kannada writer during the rule of the Hoysala empire.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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Bahubali

Bahubali was the son of Rishabhanatha (the first tirthankara of Jainism) and the brother of the chakravartin Bharata.

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Banavasi

Banavasi is an ancient temple town located near Sirsi in Karnataka.

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Basava (1131–1196), also called and, was an Indian philosopher, poet, Lingayat social reformer in the Shiva-focused bhakti movement, and a Hindu Shaivite social reformer during the reign of the Kalyani Chalukya/Kalachuri dynasty.

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Belagavi district

Belagavi district, formerly also known as Belgaum district, is a district in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Bhagavata Purana

The Bhagavata Purana (भागवतपुराण), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas).

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Bhakti

Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.

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Bijapur

Bijapur (officially Vijayapura) is the district headquarters of Bijapur district of the Karnataka state of India.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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Chamarasa

Chamarasa (c. 1425) was a 15th century Virashaiva poet in the Kannada language, during the reign of Vijayanagar Empire, a powerful empire in Southern India during 14th - 16th centuries.

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Champu

Champu or Chapu-Kavya (Devanagari: चम्पू-काव्य) is a genre of literary composition in Indian literature. Hoysala literature and Champu are Kannada literature.

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Chola dynasty

The Chola dynasty was a Tamil dynasty originating from southern India.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.

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Deva Raya II

Deva Raya II (r. 10 February 1423–May 1446 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire.

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Digambara monk

A Digambara monk or Digambara Sādhu (also muni, sādhu) is a Sādhu in the Digambar tradition of Jainism, and as such an occupant of the highest limb of the four-fold sangha.

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Dvaita Vedanta

Dvaita Vedanta; (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: Tattvavāda), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.

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Epigraphy

Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.

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Eroticism

Eroticism is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality, and romantic love.

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Expository preaching

Expository preaching, also known as expositional preaching, is a form of preaching that details the meaning of a particular text or passage of Scripture.

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Hampi

Hampi or Hampe, also referred to as the Group of Monuments at Hampi, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hampi (City), Ballari district now Vijayanagara district, east-central Karnataka, India.

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Hanuman

Hanuman (हनुमान्), also known as Maruti, Bajrangabali, and Anjaneya, is a deity in Hinduism, revered as a divine vanara, and a devoted companion of the deity Rama.

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Hari

Hari (हरि) is among the primary epithets of the Hindu preserver deity Vishnu, meaning 'the one who takes away' (sins).

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Haridasa

The Haridasa Bhakti Sahitya devotional movement (sampradaya) originated in Karnataka, India, after Madhvacharya, and spread to eastern states such as Bengal and Assam of medieval India. Hoysala literature and Haridasa are Kannada literature.

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Harihara (poet)

Harihara (or Harisvara) (ಹರಿಹರ) was a noted Kannada poet and writer in the 12th century.

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Harihareshwara Temple

Harihareshwara Temple is a Hindu temple situated in Harihar, Karnataka state, India.

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Harikatha

Harikatha (Kannada: ಹರಿಕಥೆ: Harikathe; Telugu: హరికథ: Harikatha; Marathi: हरीपाठ: Haripatha), also known as Harikatha Kaalakshepam in Telugu and Tamil, is a form of Hindu traditional discourse in which the storyteller explores a traditional theme, usually the life of a saint or a story from an Indian epic.

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Harishchandra

Harishchandra is a legendary king of the Solar dynasty, who appears in several legends in texts such as the Aitareya Brahmana, Mahabharata, the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi Bhagavata Purana.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hoysala Kingdom

The Hoysala Kingdom was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries.

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Indian literature

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Janna

Janna (Kannada: ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಜನ್ನ) was one of the well-known Kannada poets of the early 13th century who also served in the capacity of a minister and a builder of temples.

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Kalachuris of Kalyani

The Kalachuris of Kalyani, also Southern Kalachuris, were a 10th-12th-century Indian dynasty, who ruled over parts of present-day northern Karnataka and Maharashtra.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Kamadeva

Kama (कामदेव), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty, often portrayed alongside his consort and female counterpart, Rati.

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Kanaka Dasa

Kanaka Dasa (1509–1609) was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, also known as Daasashreshta Kanakadasa (ದಾಸಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕನಕದಾಸ) from present-day Karnataka, India.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

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Kannada literature

tags --> 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. Hoysala literature and Kannada literature are Indian literature and literature of Karnataka.

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Kannadigas

The Kannadigas or Kannaḍigaru, often referred to as Kannada people, are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who natively speak Kannada and trace their ancestry to the South Indian state of Karnataka in India and its surrounding regions.

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Kappe Arabhatta

Kappe Arabhatta (ಕಪ್ಪೆ ಅರಭಟ್ಟ) was a Chalukya warrior of the 8th century who is known from a Kannada verse inscription, dated to c. 700 CE, and carved on a cliff overlooking the northeast end of the artificial lake in Badami, Karnataka, India.

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Kesiraja

Kēśirāja, also spelled Keshiraja (ಕೇಶಿರಾಜ), was a 13th-century Kannada grammarian, poet and writer.

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Khalji dynasty

The Khalji or Khilji (خلجي) dynasty was the second dynasty which ruled the Delhi sultanate, covering large parts of the Indian subcontinent for nearly three decades between 1290 and 1320.

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Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysore and prevailed until 1950.

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Kolhapur

Kolhapur is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Krishna

Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Krishna River

The Krishna River in the Deccan plateau is the third-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari.

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Kshatriya

Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.

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Kumara Vyasa

Narayanappa (ನಾರಾಯಣಪ್ಪ), known by his pen name Kumara Vyasa (ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ), was an influential and classical Vaishnava poet of early 15th century in the Kannada language.

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Lakshmana

Lakshmana (lit), also known as Laxmana, Saumitra and Ramanuja, is a Hindu god and the younger brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Lakshmeshwara

Lakshmeshwara is a town, and newly created Taluk place along with Gajendragad in Gadag district, in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Lakshmisa

Lakshmisa (or Lakshmisha, ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀಶ) was a noted Kannada language writer who lived during the mid-16th or late 17th century.

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Madhvacharya

Madhvacharya (1199–1278 CE or 1238–1317 CE), also known as Purna Prajna and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahout

A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper.

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Malenadu

Malnad (or Malenadu) is a region in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Mantralayam

Mantralayam is a pilgrim village in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River on the border with neighbouring Karnataka state.

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Melukote

Melukote in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, Karnataka, in southern India, is one of the sacred places in Karnataka.It is built on rocky hills, known as Yadugiri, Yaadavagiri or Yadushaila, overlooking the Cauvery valley.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Mount Meru

Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes.

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Mysore

Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the second-most populous city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Nagavarma II

Nagavarma II (mid-11th or mid-12th century) was a Kannada language scholar and grammarian in the court of the Western Chalukya Empire that ruled from Basavakalyan, in modern Karnataka state, India.

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Nanjangud

Nanjangud, officially known as Nanjanagudu, is a town in the Mysuru district of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Narahari Tirtha

Narahari Tirtha (1243 - 1333) was a Dvaita philosopher, scholar, statesman and one of the disciples of Madhvacharya. Hoysala literature and Narahari Tirtha are Kannada literature.

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Narasimha I

Narasimha I (ಒಂದನೆ ನರಸಿಂಹ) (r. 1152–1173 CE) was a ruler of the Hoysala Empire.

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Neminatha

Nemināth (Devanagari: नेमिनाथ) (Sanskrit: नेमिनाथः), also known as Nemi and Ariṣṭanemi (Devanagari: अरिष्टनेमि), is the twenty-second tirthankara of Jainism in the present age (Avasarpini).

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Nirvana

Nirvana (निर्वाण nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge) is a concept in Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth.

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Nripa Kama II

Nripa Kama II (r. 1026–1047 CE) was an early king of the Hoysala Empire from the Malnad region of Karnataka and was possibly a vassal of the Western Ganga Dynasty and fought many wars against the Cholas.

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Pajaka

Pajaka is a village in Udupi Taluk and district of Karnataka state in India.

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Palkuriki Somanatha

Palkuriki Somanatha was one of the most noted Telugu language writers of the 12th or 13th century.

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Pandya dynasty

The Pandyan dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras.

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Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing.

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Parvati

Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Purandara Dasa

Srinivasa Nayaka, also known as Purandara Dasa (kannada ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸರು; IAST: Purandara dāsa) (1484 – 1564) was a composer, singer and a Haridasa philosopher from present-day Karnataka, India.

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Raghavanka

Raghavanka (ರಾಘವಾಂಕ) was a noted Kannada writer and a poet in the Hoysala court who flourished in the late 12th to early 13th century.

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Rama

Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Ramanuja

Ramanuja (Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Ranna (Kannada poet)

Ranna (Kannada: ರನ್ನ) was one of the earliest and arguably one of the greatest poets of the Kannada language.

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Ratnakaravarni

Ratnakaravarni was a 16th-century Kannada poet and writer.

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Ravana

Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Rudrabhatta

Rudrabhatta was an influential 12th-century Kannada poet in the court of the Hoysala Empire King Veera Ballala II(r.1173–1220 CE).

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Sacred waters

Sacred waters are sacred natural sites characterized by tangible topographical land formations such as rivers, lakes, springs, reservoirs, and oceans, as opposed to holy water which is water elevated with the sacramental blessing of a cleric.

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Sadomasochism

Sadism and masochism, known collectively as sadomasochism, are the derivation of pleasure from acts of respectively inflicting or receiving pain or humiliation.

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Sannyasa

Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास; IAST), sometimes spelled Sanyasa or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as Ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (on the path of Brahma), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sanskrit literature

Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language. Hoysala literature and Sanskrit literature are History of literature in India and Indian literature.

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Sarvajna

Sarvajña was a Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher of the 16th century.

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Saundatti

Savadatti is one of the oldest towns in Belagavi district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Seuna (Yadava) dynasty

The Seuna, Sevuna, or Yadavas of Devagiri (IAST: Seuṇa, –1317) was a medieval Indian dynasty, which at its peak ruled a realm stretching from the Narmada river in the north to the Tungabhadra river in the south, in the western part of the Deccan region.

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Shabdamanidarpana

Shabdamanidarpanam (ಶಬ್ದಮಣಿದರ್ಪಣಮ್), also spelled Śabdamaṇidarpaṇam, is a comprehensive and authoritative work on Kannada grammar written by Kesiraja in 1260 CE. Hoysala literature and Shabdamanidarpana are Kannada literature.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Shilahara

The Shilahara/Shelara Kingdom (IAST: Śilāhāra; also Shelara, Selara, Shilara, Silara) was a royal dynasty that established itself in northern and southern Konkan in 8th century CE, present-day Mumbai and Southern Maharashtra (Kolhapur) during the Rashtrakuta period.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Sita

Sita, also known as Siya, Janaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Smarta tradition

The Smarta tradition (स्मार्त), also called Smartism, is a movement in Hinduism that developed and expanded with the Puranas genre of literature.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysala_literature

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Hoysala literature, the Glossary

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See also

History of literature in India

Hoysala Kingdom

Literature of Karnataka

References