The kings of Kaadambas were generally ruled the region
called Vaijayanti or Banavasi in North Kanarese. The early Kadambas supplanted the
Chutu-Satakarnis of Vaijayanti. According
to the book “An Advanced History of
India”, the Kadamba capital was finally reduced by Pulikesin II, the son of
KirtiVarman of Chalukyas. There was a king by name Kaamadeva of the Kaadamba
dynasty of the South-West India in the 11th Century A.D.
(1182-97).
A
poet Kaviraja was patronized by him in his court. Kaviraja was the son of KirtiNarayana,
composed an interesting Dvisandhaana-Kavyam namely RaghavaPandaviyam
in 13 cantos which narrates the stories of Sri Rama and the Pandavas
simultaneously, with ‘Kamadeva’ as the mark. The double purpose is achieved by the use of
words having two meanings and splitting the compounds in two different ways. It is said that artificiality in Sanskrit
epic style reached its climax in this work.
The author’s justification for an attempt of this kind is clear from the
following stanzas of the RafhavaPandaviyam:-
“SriRamayanManikyam
BharataSvarnaMudritam
Na
kasya kurute loke vismayollaasi maanasam
SrimadRamayanam
Ganga Bharatam Sagaro Mahaan
That samyojana-kaaryajnau
Kaviraja-Bhageerathau ”
Moreover,
the poet Kaviraja call himself a master of Vakrokti (one of the
devise to test the literary merits like figures of speech) and places himself
along with Bana and Subandhu who are masters of Vakrokti.
Kaviraja is the author of another poem ParijataHaranam in ten cantos describing Krishna’s bringing the celestial tree Parijatam down to earth.
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