•   He was a Kannada language Jain poet.

•   He was a court poet of Vemulavada Chalukya king Arikesari II.

•   Pampa is best known for his epics Vikramarjuna Vijaya or Pampa Bharata, and the Adi Purana, both written in the champu style around 939 AD.

•   These works served as the model for all future champu works in Kannada.

•   Vikramarjuna Vijaya, also known as Pampa Bharata, is a Kannada version of the Mahabharata of Vyasa.

•   Sarala Dasa (born as Siddheswara Parida) was a 15^th century poet and scholar of Odia literature.

•   Best known for three Odia books

o  Mahabharata,

o  Vilanka Ramayana and

o  Chandi Purana

•   He was the first scholar to write in Odia

•   He is an important poet in medieval Bengali literature.

•   His Bengali re-telling of the Mahabharata is known as Kasidasi Mohabharot.

•   It is a popular and influential version of the Mahabharata legend in Bengal.

•   He was a 13^th century Telugu poet.

•   He was born into a Telugu Brahmin family during the age of Kakatiya dynasty.

•   He was the second poet of the Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam) that translated Mahabharata into Telugu.