 Kannada became more prominent as a literary language during the Rashtrakuta rule with its script and literature showing remarkable growth , dignity and productivity . This period effectively marked the end of the classical Prakrit and Sanskrit era . Court poets and royalty created eminent works in Kannada and Sanskrit that spanned such literary forms as prose , poetry , rhetoric , the Hindu epics and the life history of Jain tirthankars . Bilingual writers such as <unk> gained fame , and noted scholars such as the Mahaviracharya wrote on pure mathematics in the court of King Amoghavarsha I. 
