campū

literature

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In South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century)
From the 10th century on, campū narratives (part prose, part verse) became popular both in Kannada and in Telugu, as did renderings of the Sanskrit epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata and Jaina legends and biography.
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In Malayalam literature: Early period to the 19th century
Campus are elaborate compositions dealing with a given theme in alternating passages of verse and prose.
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