Durgasimha (c. 1025) was the minister of war and peace (Sandhi Vigrahi) of Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II (also known as Jagadekamalla, r. 1018–1042). Durgasimha adapted the well-known set of fables, Panchatantra ("The five strategems"), from Sanskrit language into Kannada language in champu metre (mixed prose-verse). The Sanskrit version, written by Vasubhaga Datta, is known to have originated from the Paishchi Prakrit original, Brihatkatha ("Ocean of stories") by Gunadhya.

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  • Durgasimha (c. 1025) was the minister of war and peace (Sandhi Vigrahi) of Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II (also known as Jagadekamalla, r. 1018–1042). Durgasimha adapted the well-known set of fables, Panchatantra ("The five strategems"), from Sanskrit language into Kannada language in champu metre (mixed prose-verse). The Sanskrit version, written by Vasubhaga Datta, is known to have originated from the Paishchi Prakrit original, Brihatkatha ("Ocean of stories") by Gunadhya. The Kannada language version, whose central theme has a strong Jain bent, contains 60 fables, 13 of which are original stories. All the stories have morality as their theme and carry a summary section (Katha Shloka). The Kannada version is the earliest Indian vernacular version, and the author being a minister, not surprisingly, choose to write a book on political science (Rajniti). The scholar R. Narasimhachar fixed the date of this work as c. 1025, but the modern Kannada poet and scholar Govinda Pai dated the work to March 8, 1031, based on information in the concluding stanza of the manuscript.
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  • Durgasimha (c. 1025) was the minister of war and peace (Sandhi Vigrahi) of Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II (also known as Jagadekamalla, r. 1018–1042). Durgasimha adapted the well-known set of fables, Panchatantra ("The five strategems"), from Sanskrit language into Kannada language in champu metre (mixed prose-verse). The Sanskrit version, written by Vasubhaga Datta, is known to have originated from the Paishchi Prakrit original, Brihatkatha ("Ocean of stories") by Gunadhya.
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  • Durgasimha
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