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# Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari (Karṇāṭa Bhārata Kathāmañjarī)

Kumāravyāsa Bhārata (Gadugina Bhārata)

Kannada ṣaṭpadi version of the first ten parvans by Nāraṇappa ("Kumāravyāsa") of Gadag.

- **Language:** Kannada
- **Date:** 1400–1450 CE
- **Author:** [Kumāravyāsa](https://indike.org/pramana/person/kumaravyasa)
- **Place:** Karṇāṭa
- **Extent:** 4,617 passages, 90,508 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** kn.wikisource · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikisource transcription; the work itself is in the public domain)

## Contents

- [1 ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ ಭಾರತ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.kumaravyasa.1) — 59 parts
- [2 ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ ಭಾರತ (ಕವನ)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.kumaravyasa.2) — 11 parts

## Based on

- [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1-10)

## See also: more in [Mahābhāratas in Indian regional languages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa)

- [வில்லிபாரதம்](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.villiparatam) — Tamil; 1400 CE
- [Kashidasi Mahabharata (Kāśīdāsī Mahābhārata)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.kasidasi) — Bengali; 1625 CE; partly digitised
- [Andhra Mahabharatamu (Āndhra Mahābhāratamu)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.andhra) — Telugu; 1045–1350 CE
- [Sarala Mahabharata (Sāraḷā Mahābhārata)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.sarala) — Odia; 1450 CE
- [Jaimini Bharata (Kannada) (Jaimini Bhārata (Kannada))](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.jaimini-kn) — Kannada; 1600 CE
- [Vikramarjunavijaya (Vikramārjunavijaya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.bhasa.pampabharata) — Kannada; 941 CE

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