विद्याधरोsप्सरोयक्षरक्षोगन्धर्वकिन्नराः |

कृष्णराज महाराज ! गायन्ति तव वैभवम् ||

Mummaḍi Śrī Kṛṣṇarāja Wodeyar (i.e., Krishnaraja Wodeyar III) was famous for his scholarship and his patronage of scholars. It was during his reign that the epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata were translated completely in prose form into the Kannada language. Several great scholars such as Kuṇigal Rāmaśāstri, Sosale Garaḻapuriśāstri, Kāśi Śeṣaśāstri, Karūru Śrīnivāsācārya, and Gūḻi Bāḻācārya were supported by him.

कणभयिताहे तर्के फणभयिताहे सुशब्दगणनोर्दके |

मन्दरवृत्तं वर्ते श्रुत्यंतसुधाम्बुधौ महागर्ते ||

Yugadi, also called Ugadi, is a well-known festival in India. Though it is often considered as a South Indian festival, textual evidences and local practices clearly indicate that it has a pan-Indian perspective. ‘युग’ in Sanskrit means ‘an era’. It also has many more meanings like ‘a couple’, ‘unit of time’, ‘yoke’, ‘age’, ‘generation’ and ‘lifespan’. ‘उग’ means ‘star’ or a glowing celestial body. Yugadi or Ugadi means the beginning of these. i.e, start of a year or in general a unit of time.

ಕಾಮದ ಅತಿಯಾದ ವಿವರಣೆ: ಒಂದು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪ?

ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಹಲವರು ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಿಸುವುದೇನೆಂದರೆ, ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅತಿಯಾದ ಕಾಮದ ಚಿತ್ರಣವಿದೆ  ಅಥವಾ ಅನೌಚಿತ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಲೇಖಕರು ಕಾಮವನ್ನು ವಿಜೃಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು. ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಗಳಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತರವನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುವಾಗ ಎರಡು ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನು ಗಮನದಲ್ಲಿಡಬೇಕು:

೧. ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ಜೀವಾಳವೇ ಪುರುಷಾರ್ಥಗಳ ಹಾಗೂ  ಅಹಂಕಾರದ  ಉಚ್ಚವಚನಿರೂಪಣೆ. ಇದನ್ನೇ ಅರ್ಥಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳದ ಓದುಗರ ನಿಲವಿಗೆ ಭದ್ರವಾದ ತರ್ಕದ ಬುನಾದಿಯಿಲ್ಲವಷ್ಟೆ.