''Saartha'' (meaning caravan) is an Indian novel written in

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

language by S.L. Bhyrappa. Through a caravan, the book explores the whole of 8th century India, covering the political, economical, artistic and spiritual life of the country. It uses some historical personalities like

Adi Shankaracharya Adi Shankara ("first Shankara," to distinguish him from other Shankaras)(8th cent. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya ( sa, आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, Ādi Śaṅkarācāryaḥ, lit=First Shanka ...

Maṇḍana Miśra Mandana Mishra (; c. ) was a Hindu philosopher who wrote on the Mīmāṃsā and Advaita systems of thought. He was a follower of the Karma Mimamsa school of philosophy and a staunch defender of the holistic sphota doctrine of language. He ...

, Ubhaya Bharati and

Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Kumārila Bhaṭṭa ( fl. roughly 700) was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from early medieval India. He is famous for many of his various theses on Mimamsa, such as ''Mimamsaslokavarttika''. Bhaṭṭa was a ...

and institutions like Nalanda. Its Sanskrit translation was received by Sanskrit scholars like a work originally written in the language. It has also been translated into Hindi and English, published by Oxford University Press, Chennai.

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20th-century Indian novels 1998 novels Kannada novels Novels by S. L. Bhyrappa Novels set in the 8th century {{1990s-hist-novel-stub