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Nagavarma II
Nagavarma II was a Kannada poet and grammarian of the twelfth century who served at the court of the Western Chalukya king Jagadhekamalla II. His Karnataka Bhashabhushana, a grammar of Kannada written in Sanskrit, together with his works on prosody, vocabulary and poetics, codified the literary language and remained authoritative for centuries.
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