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Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்)
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்), born Muthiah, 1927–1981, was the Kaviarasu of Tamil cinema: over 5,000 film lyrics, 4,000 poems, Arthamulla Indhu Matham, Yesu Kaaviyam, Sahitya Akademi and National Film Award winner.
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.
Kannan Pattu
Kannan Pattu (கண்ணன் பாட்டு, "Songs of Krishna") is a cycle of 23 Tamil devotional lyrics by Subramania Bharati, completed in 1912 and first published in 1917.
Kannikkoythu
Kannikkoythu (കന്നിക്കൊയ്ത്ത്), meaning Maiden Harvest, is a 1947 poetry anthology by the Malayalam poet Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, his first, gathering fifteen realist poems about agricultural life.
Kanshi (poetry)
Kanshi (漢詩), or Japanese kanshi, is Japanese poetry written in classical Chinese, composed from the seventh century until the early twentieth century, distinct from waka and haiku.
Kanteletar
Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish lyric folk poetry compiled and edited by Elias Lönnrot, first published in 1840–1841 as a companion to the Kalevala, Finland's national epic.
Kanunî Mersiyesi
Kanunî Mersiyesi is the elegy the Ottoman court poet Bâkî wrote on the death of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in 1566, counted among the best-known elegies of Turkish literature.
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.
Kara Kabita
Kara Kabita (କାରା କବିତା), meaning "Prison Poems," is a collection of thirteen Odia poems that the poet and freedom activist Gopabandhu Das wrote in Hazaribagh Jail between 1923 and 1924.
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.
Kari o Komal
Kari o Komal (কড়ি ও কোমল; Sharps and Flats) is an 1886 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, marking his shift from romantic lyricism toward reflections on reality, death, and the human condition.
Karingana ua karingana
Karingana ua karingana is a 1974 poetry collection by José Craveirinha, published in Lourenço Marques and regarded as a fundamental work of African poetry in Portuguese.
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.
Karuna
Karuna (കരുണ) is a khandakavya, or short narrative epic, in Malayalam by the poet N. Kumaran Asan, published in 1923 and retelling a Buddhist story.
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry is mystical vernacular verse tied to Trika Shaivism from the 14th century onward, best known through Lal Ded's vakhs and Nund Rishi's shruks.
Kashmiri Sufi poetry
Kashmiri Sufi poetry is mystical verse in the Kashmiri language, begun in the fifteenth century by the Rishi Sufis, most notably Nund Rishi, and still sung at devotional gatherings.
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.
Kavitavali
Kavitavali (कवितावली), also called Kabitt-Ramayan, is a collection of devotional quatrains on the life of Rama by the Hindi poet-saint Tulsidas, written in Braj Bhasha.
Kavya
Kavya (काव्य) is a Sanskrit term for poetry and creative literature characterized as classical, ornate, or courtly, subsuming prose romance, biography, and drama, with a documented history from the 7th century.
Kavyaprakasha
Kavyaprakasha (काव्यप्रकाश, literally "Light of Poetry") is an influential 11th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmir scholar Mammaṭa, whose systematic account of dhvani and poetic theory became a standard teaching text.
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.
Kendi Gök Kubbemiz
Kendi Gök Kubbemiz ("Our Own Sky Dome") is a 1961 poetry collection by Turkish poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, his first book of verse, gathering his modern-style poems.
Kerege Hara
Kerege Hara (ಕೆರೆಗೆ ಹಾರ) is a Kannada folk ballad, popular in north Karnataka, telling how a young wife is drowned in a village tank as a human sacrifice.
Kerem Gibi
Kerem Gibi is a free-verse poem by Nâzım Hikmet, published unsigned under the pseudonym "Adam" in Resimli Ay in June 1930, transforming the folk hero Kerem into an image of self-sacrifice.
Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus
Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus is a 1949 poetry collection by Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published by Pustaka Rakyat in Jakarta in two parts, including "Aku" and "Krawang-Bekasi".
Keter Malchut
Keter Malchut, also rendered Keter Malkhut or The Kingly Crown, is a Hebrew liturgical-philosophical poem of about 40 stanzas by Solomon ibn Gabirol, recited on Yom Kippur.