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Raghavanka
Raghavanka was a Kannada poet of the Hoysala period, a nephew and pupil of the poet Harihara. His Harishchandra Kavya, retelling the story of the truthful king Harishchandra, was the first major work in the shatpadi, six-line, metre, which became a standard form of Kannada poetry.
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