Dear Giridhar,
Recently I came across a very good book, Devanga
Samskriti, written by Prof. K. G. Nagarajappa. It
provides good and new info on Dasimayya and Devanga
culture in general.
--- giridhar/ciil@... wrote:
> Dear OLN,
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> thanks for the detailed info
> i will explore these sources
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> i should also read your vachana savira
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> best
> giridhar
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> nagabhushana swamy <olnswamy@...>
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> Dear Giridhar,
> As far as I know, there is one, edited by Dr. L.
> Basavaraju, and it is very useful with all the
> variant
> readings. Long back a book called "Dasimarya
> Prashasti" was published by, I think, Kannada
> Sahitya
> Parishat, and it too, I remember, has collection of
> Dasimayya's vachanas. Basavaraju's book, if i
> remember
> rightly, was published by Geetha Bookhouse,
> Mysore.One
> more source would be the Samagra Vachana Sangraha
> published by Govt. of Karnataka. But it doesn't have
> variant readings. If you can get Karnataka
> University
> publication, they have published 3 volumes of Sakala
> Puratanara Vachanagalu, and in one of them you can
> find Dasimayya, it would be the best source.
> Just for your information, I was planning to put
> Dasimayya's text after I completed Basavanna.
> olnswamy
> --- giridhar <giridhar/ciil@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > The vachana literature is the wisdom literature
> > of Kannada and indeed of the world.
> > The vachana lit among other things proves my
> > intensely held belief
> > that
> > language as formal code per se is never an end
> > anywhere except in
> > language pathology, language pedagogy and
> paediatric
> > language
> > gymnastics because meaning is the raison detre of
> > human
> > language.Literary scholars have all got it wrong
> > when they aver that
> > language is very important in literature as if it
> is
> > not important
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > I propose to translate into English Devara
> > Dasimayya's vachanas.i am
> > using a collection which is published by the
> devanga
> > sangha in
> > bangalore
> > Is there any better collection of his prose-poems?
> >
> > Giridhar
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