HaridasaThe 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. Over a span of nearly six centuries, several saints and mystics helped shape the culture, philosophy and art of South India in general and Karnataka in particular by exerting considerable spiritual influence over the masses and kingdoms that ruled South India.
Kannada literatureKannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. Attestations in literature span one and a half millennia, with some specific literary works surviving in rich manuscript traditions, extending from the 9th century to the present.
VyasatirthaVyāsatīrtha (. 1460 – 1539), also called Vyasaraja or Chandrikacharya, was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet belonging to the Madhwacharya's Dvaita order of Vedanta. As the patron saint of the Vijayanagara Empire, Vyasatirtha was at the forefront of a golden age in Dvaita which saw new developments in dialectical thought, growth of the Haridasa literature under bards like Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa and an amplified spread of Dvaita across the subcontinent.
KannadaLe kannada ou kannara (kn), anciennement canarais et, plus rarement, sirigannada, est l'une des plus anciennes langues dravidiennes, langue maternelle de personnes en Inde, dont dans l'État du Karnataka. C'est la langue officielle du Karnataka, l'un des quatre États du sud de l'Inde. Une anthologie du nom de Shivatattvaratnakara, éditée au , fut rédigée en kannada, elle fut plus tard traduite en sanskrit. En raison de son ancienneté millénaire et de sa vaste littérature, le kannada a été déclaré comme langue classique par le gouvernement indien en 2008, en même temps que le télougou.
