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Kaidara
Kaidara (also spelled Kaïdara or Kaydara) is a Fulani initiatory narrative in 2,460 free verses, collected in 1968 by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ and published in 1969.
Kaifūsō
Kaifūsō (懐風藻) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese-style poetry (kanshi) by Japanese poets, compiled in 751 during the Nara period, collecting about 120 poems by 64 court authors.
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी)
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी), queen of Ayodhya and Dasharatha's wife, mother of Bharata, whose two boons, won by saving the king in battle, send Rama into fourteen years of forest exile in the Ramayana's Ayodhya Kanda.
Kaiserchronik
The Kaiserchronik, or Chronicle of the Emperors, is an early Middle High German verse chronicle of over 17,000 verses written around 1150, probably in Regensburg.
Kakawin Arjunawijaya
Kakawin Arjunawijaya is an Old Javanese court poem composed by the Majapahit poet Mpu Tantular in the late 14th century, retelling the war between King Arjuna Sahasrabahu and the rakshasa king Rawana.
Kakawin Bharatayuddha
Kakawin Bharatayuddha, meaning "The War of the Bharatas," is an Old Javanese court epic retelling the Mahabharata war, begun in 1157 at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri.
Kakawin Hariwangsa
Kakawin Hariwangsa is an Old Javanese poem by Mpu Panuluh, written at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri around 1135 to 1157, telling of Krishna's abduction of Rukmini.
Kakawin Parthayajna
Kakawin Parthayadnya, also known as Parthayana, is an Old Javanese court poem telling of Arjuna's journey to Mount Indrakīla, traditionally attributed to Mpu Tantular of fourteenth-century Majapahit.
Kaki
Kaki (กากี) is a Thai verse narrative about Queen Kaki, whose beauty draws three men into rivalry and ends with her set adrift at sea.
Kako the Robber
Kako the Robber (კაკო ყაჩაღი) is an 1860 narrative poem by the Georgian writer Ilia Chavchavadze, protesting serfdom through the story of a runaway serf.
Kala Ghoda Poems
Kala Ghoda Poems is a 2004 collection of 28 English poems by Indian poet Arun Kolatkar, observing Mumbai's Kala Ghoda district from a restaurant table; it appeared weeks before his death.
Kalapurnodayamu
Kalapurnodayamu (కళాపూర్ణోదయము) is a 16th-century Telugu narrative poem in eight cantos by Pingali Surana, a masterpiece of layered storytelling that some scholars call the first Indian novel.
Kaldırımlar
Kaldırımlar (Turkish for "Sidewalks") is a 1927 poem by the Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and the title of his second poetry book, published in Istanbul in 1928.
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.
Kalittokai
Kalittokai (கலித்தொகை) is a classical Tamil poetic anthology of 150 love poems in the kali meter, the sixth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature.
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.
Kamsuan Samut
Kamsuan Samut (กำสรวลสมุทร), also known as Kamsuan Si Prat and rendered Ocean Lament, is an early Ayutthaya Thai poem considered a precursor of the nirat genre.
Kana Preface
The Kana Preface (仮名序, Kanajo) is the preface in kana at the head of the Kokin Wakashū, the 905 imperial waka anthology, attributed to Ki no Tsurayuki.
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.
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Kanda Shasti Kavasam (கந்த சஷ்டி கவசம்) is a 19th-century Tamil devotional hymn of protection to the god Murugan, composed by Devaraya Swamigal and most widely sung during the festival Skanda Sashti.
Kandar Anubhuti
Kandar Anubhuti (கந்தர் அனுபூதி, "The Kanda Experience") is a Tamil devotional poem of 51 verses praising the god Murugan, composed in the 15th century by Arunagirinathar.
Kanika
Kanika (কণিকা) is a collection of short, satirical poems and epigrams by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in Calcutta in 1899; the title means a tiny particle or drop.
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 Jainapurana
Kannada Jainapurana (ಕನ್ನಡ ಜೈನ ಪುರಾಣ) is a genre of Jain narrative religious poems in Kannada, retelling Tirthankara lives and Jaina recastings of the Hindu epics.
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.