 Harihara 's nephew and protégé , the dramatic poet Raghavanka of Hampi , whose style is compared to that of 10th @-@ century poet <unk> , was the first to establish the shatpadi metre in Kannada literature in the epic Harishchandra Kavya ( 1200 ) . According to L. S. <unk> Rao , it is believed that in no other language has the story of King Harishchandra been interpreted in this way . The writing is an original in tradition and inspiration that fully develops the potential of the shatpadi metre . The narration has many noteworthy elegiac verses such as the mourning of <unk> over the death of her young son <unk> from snake bite . The very writing that made Raghavanka famous was rejected by his guru , Harihara . His other well @-@ known writings , adhering to strict Shaiva principles and written to appease his guru , are the Siddharama charitra ( or Siddharama Purana ) , a larger than life stylistic <unk> of the <unk> 12th @-@ century Veerashaiva saint , Siddharama of <unk> ; the Somanatha charitra , a propagandist work that describes the life of saint <unk> ( or <unk> ) of <unk> ( modern <unk> ) , his humiliation by a Jain girl and his revenge ; the <unk> <unk> , a dramatic story of the blind wrath of a Shaiva warrior , <unk> ; the <unk> , an account of the life of <unk> of Hampi ; and <unk> charitra . The last two classics are considered lost . 
