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Durgasimha
Durgasimha was a Kannada poet and minister of the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II in the early eleventh century. His Panchatantra, adapted from Sanskrit sources in the champu style of mixed verse and prose, is one of the earliest versions of the Panchatantra fables in a regional Indian language and a classic of Kannada literature.
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