 Other well @-@ known personalities from the 12th century included several Jain writers . These include <unk> , who authored <unk> ( 1189 ) , an account of the life of the eighth Jain tirthankar <unk> ; <unk> , who wrote a <unk> on <unk> of <unk> ; and <unk> <unk> , who authored <unk> <unk> and <unk> ( 1160 ) . The latter was <unk> 's version of the Sanskrit original of the same name written by <unk> c . <unk> . In this champu writing , the author narrates the story of two <unk> princess who went to Benares and exposed the vices of the gods after discussions with the <unk> there . The author questions the credibility of Hanuman ( the Hindu monkey god ) and the <unk> ( monkey @-@ like <unk> in the Hindu epic Ramayana ) . Although controversial , the work sheds useful information on contemporary religious beliefs . Kereya Padmarasa , a Veerashaiva poet patronised by King Narasimha I , wrote <unk> in the ragale metre in 1165 . He would later become the protagonist of a biographical work called <unk> written by his descendant <unk> in c . 1400 . The brahmin poet Deva Kavi authored a romance piece called <unk> ( 1200 ) , and brahmin poet Kavi Kama ( 12th century ) authored a treatise called <unk> @-@ <unk> on the <unk> ( flavor ) of poetical sentiment . <unk> ( 1170 ) was a poet @-@ grammarian and the <unk> ( " military teacher " ) under King Narasimha I. He was also a priest in <unk> , the <unk> <unk> capital . 
