Inter exempla primorum operum in linguaSanscrita Vedica conscriptorum sunt nucleus Vedorum et Upanishad. Inter alia exempla sunt Orsae Sulba, nonnulli ex primis textibus de geometria.
Anglice "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
"The earliest literary work is the Kavirajamarga (c. AD 450), a treatise on poetics based on a Sanskrit model" ("Kannada literature," Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008).
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