Tirumalamba, a poet of the

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, wrote "Varadambika Parinayam", the story of marriage of King

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, in

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. Tirumalamba wrote that it was the task of ''Arya Mahile'', the women concerned about Arya Dharma, to wake up the Mother (land). Tirumalamba wrote a number of poems invoking Kannadaness and the Kannada nation. C.N.Mangala, a noted Kannada critic observes that these were the poems to express Kannada nationalism for the very first time in Kannada.Chi.Na Mangala. 1991.

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