Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harshita Mruthinti Kamath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harshita Mruthinti |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamath |
| SIGNATURE | KAMATH H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3548-4765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Empire Inside Out
The Dancer's Voice
Vedantam vs. Venus
Dangerous to auspicious
Nannaya, an eleventh century court poet, is revered as the first poet (ādikavi) of Telugu literature, and his Mahābhāratamu is considered the first classical Telugu text. This article explores the ways in which Nannaya transformed the Sanskrit Mahābhārata into a vernacular idiom. While the Sanskrit Mahābhārata is a dangerous text associated with the conflicts of kingship, Nannaya's Telugu Bhāratamu is an auspicious regional retelling. We argue th…
A Guide for Poets
Kavijanāśrayamu, or A Guide for Poets, is the oldest extant text on prosody written in Telugu. For centuries, poets and scholars have debated the authorship, date and geographical location of this text. According to some scholars, the text was authored by Malliya Recana, a Jain scholar of prosody from the tenth century who predates Nannaya, long considered to be the ‘first poet’ (ādikavi) of classical Telugu. In this article, I argue that the con…
"Praising God in "Wondrous and Picturesque Ways
Focused on Nandi Timmana's sixteenth-century Telugu epic poem, Pārijātāpaharaṇamu (Theft of a Tree), this article analyzes citrakāvya, a genre of poetry that includes various kinds of patterned verses, word puzzles, and figural poems. The seventeenth-century Telugu grammarian Appakavi outlines three genres of citrakāvya: 1) citrakavitvamu (verses with restricted syllables); 2) bandhakavitvamu (figural verses); and 3) garbhakavitvamu (verses with …
My Grandmother’s Bones
This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother’s life and death, respectively. I also consider the materiality of my grandmother’s bones in the funerary rites, including the final cremation and post-cremation rituals conducted by my …
Kṣētrayya
Kṣētrayya is the attributed author of Telugu padams (short lyrical poems) dedicated to Muvva Gōpāla, a form of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Kṣētrayya is commonly described as a peripatetic poet from the village of Muvva in Telugu-speaking South India who wandered south to the Nāyaka courts of Tanjavur in the seventeenth century. Contrary to popular and scholarly assumptions about this poet, this article argues that Kṣētrayya was not a historical figure…
Kṣētrayya
Kṣētrayya is the attributed author of Telugu padams (short lyrical poems) dedicated to Muvva Gōpāla, a form of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Kṣētrayya is commonly described as a peripatetic poet from the village of Muvva in Telugu-speaking South India who wandered south to the Nāyaka courts of Tanjavur in the seventeenth century. Contrary to popular and scholarly assumptions about this poet, this article argues that Kṣētrayya was not a historical figure…
Dangerous to auspicious
Nannaya, an eleventh century court poet, is revered as the first poet (ādikavi) of Telugu literature, and his Mahābhāratamu is considered the first classical Telugu text. This article explores the ways in which Nannaya transformed the Sanskrit Mahābhārata into a vernacular idiom. While the Sanskrit Mahābhārata is a dangerous text associated with the conflicts of kingship, Nannaya's Telugu Bhāratamu is an auspicious regional retelling. We argue th…
Kṣētrayya
Kṣētrayya is the attributed author of Telugu padams (short lyrical poems) dedicated to Muvva Gōpāla, a form of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Kṣētrayya is commonly described as a peripatetic poet from the village of Muvva in Telugu-speaking South India who wandered south to the Nāyaka courts of Tanjavur in the seventeenth century. Contrary to popular and scholarly assumptions about this poet, this article argues that Kṣētrayya was not a historical figure…
My Grandmother’s Bones
This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother’s life and death, respectively. I also consider the materiality of my grandmother’s bones in the funerary rites, including the final cremation and post-cremation rituals conducted by my …
A Guide for Poets
Kavijanāśrayamu, or A Guide for Poets, is the oldest extant text on prosody written in Telugu. For centuries, poets and scholars have debated the authorship, date and geographical location of this text. According to some scholars, the text was authored by Malliya Recana, a Jain scholar of prosody from the tenth century who predates Nannaya, long considered to be the ‘first poet’ (ādikavi) of classical Telugu. In this article, I argue that the con…
"Praising God in "Wondrous and Picturesque Ways
Focused on Nandi Timmana's sixteenth-century Telugu epic poem, Pārijātāpaharaṇamu (Theft of a Tree), this article analyzes citrakāvya, a genre of poetry that includes various kinds of patterned verses, word puzzles, and figural poems. The seventeenth-century Telugu grammarian Appakavi outlines three genres of citrakāvya: 1) citrakavitvamu (verses with restricted syllables); 2) bandhakavitvamu (figural verses); and 3) garbhakavitvamu (verses with …
Dangerous to auspicious
Nannaya, an eleventh century court poet, is revered as the first poet (ādikavi) of Telugu literature, and his Mahābhāratamu is considered the first classical Telugu text. This article explores the ways in which Nannaya transformed the Sanskrit Mahābhārata into a vernacular idiom. While the Sanskrit Mahābhārata is a dangerous text associated with the conflicts of kingship, Nannaya's Telugu Bhāratamu is an auspicious regional retelling. We argue th…
Vedantam vs. Venus
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Empire Inside Out
The Dancer's Voice
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Telugu (5 works) · History (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)