 Literary developments during the Hoysala period had a marked influence on Kannada literature in the centuries to follow . These developments popularised folk metres which shifted the emphasis towards <unk> ( native or folk ) forms of literature . With the <unk> of Jain literary output , competition between the Veerashaiva and Vaishnava writers came to the fore . The Veerashaiva writer <unk> ( author of <unk> , 1425 ) and his Vaishnava competitor <unk> ( <unk> Bharata <unk> , <unk> ) popularised the shatpadi metric tradition initiated by Hoysala poet Raghavanka , in the court of Vijayanagara King Deva <unk> II . <unk> , the 16th – 17th century writer of epic poems , continued the tradition in the <unk> Bharata , a work that has remained popular even in the modern period . The tripadi metre , one of the oldest in the Kannada language ( <unk> <unk> inscription of 700 ) , which was used by Akka <unk> ( <unk> <unk> , 1160 ) , was popularised in the 16th century by the <unk> poet <unk> . Even Jain writers , who had dominated courtly literature throughout the classical period with their Sanskritic champu style , began to use native metres . Among them , <unk> is famous for successfully integrating an element of worldly pleasure into asceticism and for treating the topic of <unk> with discretion in a religious epic written in the native sangatya metre ( a metre initiated by Hoysala poet Sisumayana ) , his magnum opus , the <unk> <unk> ( c . <unk> ) . 
