Champuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Champu or Champu-Kavya (Devanagari: चम्पु-काव्य) is a genre in Sanskrit literature. It consists of a mixture of prose (Gadya-Kavya) and poetry passages (Padya-Kavya), with verses interspersed among prose sections. Adikavi Pampa, the Adikavi, or the first poet of Kannada literature and one of the greatest Kannada poets of all time, pioneered this style when he wrote his classical works, Vikramarjuna Vijaya (Pampa Bharata) and Adipurana in it, around 940 CE, and which served as the model for all future works in the Kannada.