 Harihara ( or <unk> , 1160 ) , who came from a family of <unk> ( accountants ) in Hampi , was one of the earliest Veerashaiva writers who was not part of the Vachana poetic tradition . He is considered one of the most influential Kannada poets of the Hoysala era . A non @-@ <unk> , he has been called " poet of poets " and a " poet for the masses " . Kannada poetry changed course because of his efforts , and he was an inspiration for generations of poets to follow . Impressed by his early writings , Kereya Padmarasa , the court poet of King Narasimha I , introduced him to the king , who became Harihara 's patron . A master of many metres , he authored the <unk> ( " Marriage of the mountain born goddess – Parvati " ) in the <unk> tradition , employing the champu style to tell a 10 @-@ part story leading to the marriage of the god Shiva and Parvati . According to an <unk> , Harihara was so against <unk> earthly mortals that he struck his protégé Raghavanka for writing about King Harishchandra in the landmark work Harishchandra Kavya ( c . 1200 ) . Harihara is credited with developing the native ragale metre . The earliest poetic biographer in the Kannada language , he wrote a biography of Basavanna called <unk> ragale , which gives interesting details about the protagonist while not always conforming to popular beliefs of the time . <unk> to him is a group of 100 poems called the <unk> ragale ( also called <unk> ragale or <unk> – " The holy lake of the lives of the devotees " ) after the saint <unk> . In the sataka metre he wrote the Pampa sataka , and in the ashtaka metre , the <unk> ashtaka in about 1200 . 
