गोबां बासिनानै गैलियाब्लाबो बादामी चालुक्यफोरनि मुगानि, कन्नड़ थुनलाइ थामोनथानि बागै रायखांनाय जादों।
From the period of the Badami Chalukyas, references are made to the existence of Kannada literature, though not much has survived.