[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s3.4 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s3.4 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s3.4 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.4) Chāvundarāya, one of Ranna’s early patrons, was a feudatory of Ganga Rācamalla IV who conferred on him the title Rāya for his having set up the colossus of Gommaṭeśvara at Śravana Belgola. He composed in 978 the Cāvuṇḍarāya-purāṇa or Trishashṭi-lakshaṇamahāpurāṇa, one of the earliest extant prose works in Kannada, treating of the legends of twenty-four Tirthankaras, twelve Cakravartis, nine Balabhadras, nine Nārāyaṇas and nine Pratinārāyaṇas, sixty-three in all. Nāgavarma I was another protégé of Chāvundarāya, and like him, a pupil of Ajitasena. He came of a Brahmin family which like Pampa’s came from the Vengi country. His Chandombudhi, ‘ocean of prosody’, addressed by the author to his wife, is the earliest work on the subject in Kannada. The Karṇāṭaka-Kādambari is a Campū based on Bāṇa’s prose romance in Sanskrit; its sweet and flowing style is valued highly by critics. - [Previous: c19.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.3) - [Next: c19.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.5) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mahāpurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.anuyoga.epic.mahapurana) — Jinasena (II) & Guṇabhadra, Sanskrit - [Karṇāṭaka Kādambarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.kavya.karnataka_kadambari) — Nāgavarma I, Kannada - [Chandombudhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.chandombudhi) — Nāgavarma I, Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.4) · Pramāṇa