excavation. Great Personalities of Annigeri Adikavi Pampa Annigeri is the birthplace of the great Kannada poet , Adikavi Pampa . Benjamin Loirice first wrote about Pampa and published the Pampa Bharata in 1882. Sri S G Narasimhachar brought out Adi Purana in 1900 and Kannada Sahitya Parishat published the revised edition