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Kalevala
Kalevala: Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folk poetry; Old Kalevala 1835, New Kalevala 1849 in fifty runos, in Kalevala meter, translated into over forty-seven languages.
Kalevipoeg
Kalevipoeg is the Estonian national epic, compiled by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald from folk legends and published in 1862; it became a symbol of the national awakening.
Kalingattupparani
Kalingattupparani (கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி) is a medieval Tamil war poem composed by the court poet Jayamkondar, celebrating Emperor Kulottunga Chola I's invasion of Kalinga and the earliest surviving parani.
Kamayani
Kamayani (कामायनी) is a 1936 Hindi epic poem by Jaishankar Prasad, the leading epic of the Chhayavad movement, retelling the flood myth of Manu and Shraddha.
Kamba Ramayanam
Kamba Ramayanam (கம்பராமாயணம்), properly titled Irāmāvatāram, is a Tamil epic by the poet Kampan, traditionally dated to the 12th century, retelling the Rama story in Tamil.
Kanda Puranam
Kanda Puranam (கந்த புராணம்) is a Tamil devotional epic retelling the life of the god Murugan, composed around the 14th century by the Kanchipuram priest Kachiyappa Sivachariyar.
Kannada Bhagavata
The Kannada Bhagavata (ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಗವತ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada verse rendering of the complete Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, written by Cāṭuvithalanātha in Bhamini shatpadi meter during the Vijayanagara period around 1530 to 1542.
Kannada epic poetry
Kannada epic poetry is the tradition of long narrative poems in Kannada, spanning Jain and Lingayat court epics from the ninth century onward and oral folk epics.
Kannada folk epic
Kannada folk epics (ಜನಪದ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳು) are long oral narrative poems of Karnataka sung by community singers, with the Manteswamy Kavya and Madeshvara Kavya the principal works.
Kannada Ramayana
The Kannada Ramayana is the body of Rama-story retellings in Kannada, including Nagachandra's Jain Pampa Ramayana of 1149 and Narahari's Torave Ramayana of about 1500.
Kannagi (கண்ணகி)
Kannagi (கண்ணகி), heroine of the Tamil epic Cilappatikaram by Ilango Adigal: after her husband Kovalan is wrongly executed by the Pandyan king, she proves his innocence with her ruby-filled anklet and burns Madurai, then is deified as the goddess Pattini, worshipped in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Sri Lanka.
Kanupriya
Kanupriya (कनुप्रिया) is a 1959 Hindi long poem by Dharmvir Bharati that retells the love of Radha for Krishna from her own point of view.
Karel ende Elegast
Karel ende Elegast ("Charles and Elegast") is a Middle Dutch chivalric epic of about 1,400 verses in which an angel sends Charlemagne out stealing at night.
Kartavirya Arjuna (कार्तवीर्यार्जुन)
Kartavirya Arjuna (Sahasrabahu), thousand-armed Haihaya king of Mahishmati in Hindu epic and Purana, blessed by Dattatreya, captor of Ravana, slain by Parashurama; distinct from the Pandava Arjuna.
Kasi Khandamu
Kasi Khandamu (కాశీఖండము) is a Telugu court epic by the poet Srinatha, a rendering of the Sanskrit Kasi Khanda glorifying the holy city of Kashi, composed around 1440 CE.
Kaurava (कौरव)
Kaurava (कौरव), descendants of king Kuru, denotes chiefly Dhritarashtra's hundred sons led by Duryodhana, who fought the five Pandava cousins at Kurukshetra and were annihilated, ushering in kaliyuga.
Kausilumina
Kausilumina (කව්සිළුමිණ, also spelled Kavsilumina) is a thirteenth-century Sinhala mahakavya by King Parakramabahu II of the Dambadeniya period, versifying the Kusa Jataka in 770 verses across 15 cantos.
Kav Silumina
Kav Silumina, literally "the crest-gem of poetry", is a Sinhalese epic poem of thirteenth-century Ceylon, generally attributed to King Parakramabahu II and woven around the Kusa-jataka, the story of the Bodhisattva king Kusa.
Kavikankan Chandi
Kavikankan Chandi (কবিকঙ্কণ চণ্ডী), also known as Kabikankan Chandi or Abhayamangal, is a 16th-century Bengali epic poem on the goddess Chandi, composed by Mukundaram Chakrabarti in West Bengal.
Kebra Nagast
Kebra Nagast (Ge'ez, "Glory of the Kings"), Ethiopian national epic in Ge'ez prose, fourteenth-century redaction; tells of Makeda, Solomon, Menelik, and the Ark at Aksum; charter of the Solomonic dynasty.
Keyurabahucharitramu
Keyurabahucharitramu (కేయూరబాహుచరిత్రము) is a Telugu kathā-kāvya written by poet Manchana in the 12th or 13th century, one of the earliest Telugu works in the kathā narrative tradition.
Khamsa of Amir Khusrau
The Khamsa of Amir Khusrau is a quintet of five narrative poems in Persian written by the Delhi poet Amir Khusrau between 1298 and 1302.
Khamsa of Navoi
The Khamsa of Navoi (خمسۀ نوائي, Quintet of Nava'i) is a set of five narrative poems in Chagatai Turkic by Ali Shir Nava'i, composed 1483–1485 and considered the central work of Chagatai literature.
Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa (Xəmsə), also called the Quintet, is a set of five Persian narrative poems by the poet Nizami Ganjavi, written between about 1177 and 1203.
Khavaran-nameh
Khavaran-nameh (خاوراننامه) is a Persian religious epic poem completed in 1426-27 by Ebn Hosam, recounting the heroic deeds of Ali and counted among the major Persian religious epics.
Khosrow and Shirin
Khosrow and Shirin (خسرو و شیرین) is a narrative poem by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, recounting the love of King Khosrow II Parviz for Princess Shirin.
Kidung Harsawijaya
Kidung Harsawijaya is a Middle Javanese historical kidung about the fall of Singasari and the rise of Majapahit; its oldest manuscript was copied in Bali in 1843.
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama, also called Kidung Sorandaka, is a Middle Javanese kidung, the earliest extant, with a proposed composition date of 24 November 1334, shortly after the events it describes.
Kidung Sunda
Kidung Sunda is a Middle Javanese narrative poem found in Bali and the fullest literary account of the Bubat incident of 1357, a clash between Sunda and Majapahit.
Kirtikaumudi
The Kirtikaumudi (कीर्तिकौमुदी, "Moonlight of Fame") is a 13th-century Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Somesvaradeva celebrating the Gujarat minister Vastupala and narrating Chalukya dynasty history.