Jatasimhanandi, a Jain monk from Karnataka, was the author of several kāvya poetic works, including the adventure narrative of Varangacharita.
The book included an adventure narrative of the expedition, and an account of the Käymäjärvi Inscriptions.
Jatasimhanandi was the author of several kāvya poetic works, including the adventure narrative of Varangacharita.
It is in large part a heroic adventure narrative, though discussion of Jain doctrine is woven into the book.
Together with its lengthy journalistic text, it's a funny, Monty Python-esque parody of the generic scientific adventure narrative (Johnson).
Clarke Stuart noted that "because of its destabilizing character, the natural world is often depicted as the antagonist in science fiction and adventure narratives" like Fringe.
With ham-fisted bravura he painted big scale, melodramatic adventure narratives that looked as if they had been copied from the covers of pulp fiction paperbacks.
He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy.
Though the material is literally terrible, the writing is exhilarating and what unfolds resembles an adventure narrative: a forced expedition into those "cliffs of fall" identified by Hopkins.
One admires the craft with which they fabricated these artifacts and enjoys their Monty Python-esque parody of the generic scientific adventure narrative.