Belluru Mylaraiah Srikantaiah (3 January 1884 – 5 January 1946), was an Indian author, writer and translator of Kannada literature.

Prominent Students

V. Seetharamaiah

K. V. Puttappa

Works

Gadayuddha Natakam (ಗದಾಯುದ್ಧ ನಾಟಕಂ) (play) Aswatthaaman ( ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥಾಮನ್ ) (Play) Honganasugalu ( ಹೊಂಗನಸುಗಳು ) (Poetry)

B. M. Srikantaiah

Translations

English Geetegalu (ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ ಗೀತೆಗಳು )(English Songs, 1921) " lead kindly light" Kural (1940, Bangalore) Silappatikaram

B. M. Srikantaiah

Literary criticism

Kannadigarige olleya saahitya (Good literature for Kannada People) Kannada Kaipidi (History of Kannada Literature)

B. M. Srikantaiah

See also

Kannada language

Kannada literature

Kannada poetry

References

1884 births

1946 deaths

Kannada-language writers

People from Tumkur district

Kannada people

Academic staff of the University of Mysore

20th-century Indian poets

Writers from Karnataka

Tamil–Kannada translators

Translators of the Tirukkural into Kannada

20th-century Indian male writers

20th-century translators

Tirukkural translators

Writers from British India