The most famous poet from this period is Pampa (902-975 CE), one of the most famous writers in the Kannada language. Asaga wrote Vardhaman Charitra, an epic which runs in 18 cantos, in 853 CE, the first Sanskrit biography of the 24th and last tirthankara of Jainism, Mahavira, though his Kannada-language version of Kalidasa's epic poem, Kumārasambhava, Karnataka Kumarasambhava Kavya is lost. Kannada epic poetry mainly consists of Jain religious literature and Lingayat literature. Verma (1978) narrates the tragic story about the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri through his wife Lalita Shastri. It inspires humans to live a life based on 'karm' and not on fortunes.Īpart from Kamayani, Kurukshetra (Epic Poetry) (1946), Rashmirathi (1952) and Urvashi (1961) by Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' have attained the status of epic poetry. Some critics surmise that the three lead characters of Kamayani symbolize a synthesis of knowledge, action and desires in human life. Another female character is Ida, who represents rationality.

Manu is representative of the human psyche and Shradha represents love. It is a story of the great flood and the central characters of the epic poem are Manu (a male) and Shraddha (a female).

The narrative of Kamayani is based on a popular mythological story, first mentioned in Satapatha Brahmana. In modern Hindi literature, Kamayani by Jaishankar Prasad has attained the status of an epic. Meitei language (officially called ' Manipuri')Įpic cycles of incarnations in Moirang, Meitei literature The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic poems ever written. Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).

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