Amoghavarsha I (Nṛpatuṅga)#Amoghavarsha
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#Amoghavarsha
Amoghavarsha I (Nṛpatuṅga) · 800–878 CE · reigned 814–878
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Who this is
Emperor of the Rashtrakuta dynasty; author and patron — credited, with his court poet Śrīvijaya, with the Kavirājamārga, the oldest surviving book in Kannada.
“The most powerful ruler in ninth-century India measured his reign not in conquests but in books — and the one that carries his name is the founding document of a literature still being written today.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A king ranked by Arab merchants among the four great sovereigns of the earth kept trying to put the throne down — and the book bearing his name gave Kannada, a spoken tongue, its charter as a literary language.”
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