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Sarvagna (often Romanised “Sarvajna”) is the people’s moralist of early modern Karnataka: his tripadis—three-line stanzas—turn daily life into lessons about greed, flattery, education, and contentment. humour and paradox keep the tone approachable, which is why so many lines survive as proverbs even when readers forget the author’s name.

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