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Canarese Poetical Anthology

by F. Kittel
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121231893
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 429
  • Original Price: INR 840.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 667 grams
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A collection of 631 verses along with commentaries collected by the canarese scholar F. Kittle. The poets quoted include sarvajna, Lakshmica, Kumara Valmiki, the author of the canarese Bharata, the Vaishnavas, Banganatha, the Lingayat Virupaksha, somecvara, Kecava Raja and Nagavarma. The verses relate to emotions and snippets from the mythological epics. This book is reprint of the 1874 edition.

Reverend Ferdinand Kittel was a priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka. He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894. He also composed numerous Kannada poems. Having a strong desire to learn Kannada, he undertook exhaustive studies learning the Kannada language, customs and local music. This earned rebuke from the Basel Mission, where he was already an outsider on account of his North German origin and academic education. This marginalised him by pushing him to a remote station in the Nilgiris and later confining him to the mission's press in Mangalore. He returned to Germany, but visited India again in his fifties to complete his dictionary, which by then had become for him an end in itself, and not merely an instrument secondary to missionary work.

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