page_title: Kumara Vyasa
section_title: Place and time
hierarchical_section_title: Kumara Vyasa / Works / Place and time
caption_attribution_description: English: This photograph was taken at the Veeranarayana temple built by Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana in Gadag city, Karnataka state, India. The pillar is called "Kumaravyasa pillar" (Kumaravyasa stambha) because it was here, at this pillar, that the great Kannada poet Kumara Vyasa sat to write his epic Kumaravyasa Bharata or Gadugina Bharata, a Kannada language adaptation/version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
context_page_description: Kumara Vyasa is the pen name of Narayanappa, an influential and classical Vaishnava 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. Kumara Vyasa literally means "Little Vyasa" or "Son of Vyasa". 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. Both poets worked in the court of Deva Raya II.
context_section_description: His magnum opus, Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari, was completed in 1430 when Deva Raya II was ruling the Vijayanagara empire. Kumara Vyasa earned high esteem as a poet in his court. Kumara Vyasa was mentioned by other prominent 15th century poets, such as Kanaka Dasa and Timmanna Kavi.
  Kumara Vyasa lived in Koliwad, a village 35 km (22 mi) from Gadag in North Karnataka.  According to popular legend, Kumara Vyasa is said to have composed his work at the Veeranarayana temple in Gadag. A pillar known as Kumara Vyasa's pillar stands in the temple to this day.
caption: Kumaravyasa Stambha ("Kumaravyasa's Pillar") in the large mantapa of the Veeranarayana temple in Gadag, where Kumara Vyasa is known to have written his epic, the Kumaravyasa Bharata
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