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'''''Vikramarjuna Vijaya''''' (Kannada- ವಿಕ್ರಮಾರ್ಜುನ ವಿಜಯ) (''victory of the mighty Arjuna''), also known as '''Pampa Bharatha ''' is a classic work of the 10th century [[Jain]] poet [[Adikavi Pampa|Pampa]] (902–975 AD).<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628881/Vikramarjuna-Vijaya Vikramarjuna Vijaya] ''[[Britannica.com]]''.</ref> It is a [[Kannada]] version of the great epic, the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' of [[Vyasa]]. Pampa choose the [[Arjuna]], the central figure of the Pandava Clan, as the hero of his epic. This work differs from ''Mahabharata'' in several aspects, one of them being Arjuna crowned the king, [[subhadra]] the queen, after [[Kurukshetra]] war, instead of [[Yudhishthira]], and [[Draupadi]] respectively.

A court poet of [[Chalukyas of Vemulavada|Chalukya]] king [[Arikesari II]], a [[Rashtrakuta]] feudatory, he is most known for his epics, ''Vikramarjuna Vijaya'' (Pampa Bharata) and ''[[Adipurana]]'', both written in ''[[Champu]]'' style, which he created and served as the model for all future works in Kannada. The works of Jain writers Adikavi Pampa, Sri Ponna and Ranna, collectively called the "three gems of [[Kannada literature]]", heralded the age of classical Kannada in the 10th century, the [[Medieval Kannada literature]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Students' Britannica India, Volumes 1-5|publisher=Popular Prakashan |year=2000|isbn=0-85229-760-2 |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AE_LIg9G5CgC&pg=PA78 }}</ref>

==History==
Vikramarjuna Vijaya is a 10th-century work of [[Adikavi Pampa]].{{sfn|Upinder Singh|2016|p=29}}

==Content==
This work is not an abridged version of [[Vyasa]]'s ''Mahabharata'', but, rather, a recreation of the original in the cultural context of Karnataka and the religious context of Jainism.{{Citation needed|date= November 2012}} The relatively less dominant and slightly Machiavellian role given to [[Krishna]] is a major change.{{Citation needed|date= November 2012}}

Pampa was the court poet of [[Chalukya]] King Arikesari, a [[Rashtrakuta]] feudatory. The work acquires a historical significance because of the equation made by the poet between Arjuna and Arikesari his patron king belonging to the Ganga dynasty. This work was trendsetting in Kannada both in terms of subject and the form.{{Citation needed|date= November 2012}}

==See also==
* [[Western Chalukya literature in Kannada]]
* [[Adi Purana]]
*original Text- Pamp Bharat- with word by word meaning : [https://kn.wikisource.org/s/18 ಪಂಪಭಾರತ]

==Notes==
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==Sources==
* {{citation |last=Singh |first=Upinder |author-link=Upinder Singh |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq2iCwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Pearson Education]] |date=2016 |isbn=978-93-325-6996-6 |ref={{sfnref|Upinder Singh|2016}} }}

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