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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Annadanaiah Puranik
| image = Annadanayya-puranik.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1928|03|08}}
| birth_place = Dyampura, [[Yelburga]], [[Koppal district]], [[Karnataka]]),
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|10|20|1928|03|08}}
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], India
| occupation = Advocate, Freedom fighter, writer
| language = [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
| period =
| genre = Fiction, drama
| subject =
| website =
}}
'''Annadanaiah (Annadanayya) Puranik''' (8 March 1928 – 20 October 2015),<ref>
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</ref> Indian writer, cultural activist, freedom fighter, modern vachanakara and an advocate. After Indian independence, he has served as an Advocate in state high court of Karnataka for five decades. He was also conferred the title '''Sahityaratna''', for his contribution to Kannada literature and enormous contribution during a secretarial term with [[Kannada Sahitya Parishat]].

Annadanayya Puranik is known for his participation in [[Quit India Movement]] alongside Mahatma Gandhi.<ref>
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|title = S R Patil calls on Annadanaiah Puranik at Sagar Hospital
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|date = 7 October 2015
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</ref> He has also been instrumental in the [[Hyderabad-Karnataka|Hyderabad Karnataka]] movement in 1947–1948.<ref>
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|title = Border Movement in Hyderabad Karnataka for Liberation and Integration (1947-48)
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|issue = researchgate.net
|publisher = Nagabhushana Goud P
|date = November 2020
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</ref> He is the Founder general secretary of All India Basava Samithi and has contributed towards promotion of Basava Philosophy in various languages. He was also a Hon. General secretary of Kannada Sahitya Parishad. Being a member of Gazetteer advisory committee at Gazetteer of Karnataka Government, he has contributed towards publishing Gazetteers of districts of the state.<ref>
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|title = Bangalore_1990_Chapter23_Preface
|url = https://karunadu.karnataka.gov.in/Gazetteer/Publications/District%20Gazetteers/Bangalore%20District/1990/Bangalore_1990_Chapter23_Preface.pdf
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|publisher = karnataka.gov.in
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|access-date = 8 February 2021
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</ref><ref>
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|first1 =
|title = Gazetteer of India Government of Karnataka, Karnataka State Gazetteer Part II
|url = https://www.indianculture.gov.in/gazettes/gazetteer-india-government-karnataka-karnataka-state-gazetteer-part-ii
|issue =
|publisher = indianculture.gov.in
|date = 1983
|access-date = 8 February 2021
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</ref> He was also member of the first language commission for Karnataka.<ref>
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|title = State Official Language Commission
|url = http://www.dpal.kar.nic.in/commit_commis.htm
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|date =
|access-date = 8 February 2021
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</ref>

== Early life and education ==

Annadanaiah Puranik was born in Dyampura, a village in Yelburga Taluk of Koppal District. His father Sri Kallinatha Shastri Puranik<ref>
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|first1 =
|title = Sri Basavesvara
|url = http://raichur.nic.in/en/lca.asp
|issue =
|publisher = Literary & Cultural Activities
|date = 1967
|access-date = 8 February 2021
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</ref> is known for writings Puranas in Kannada, such as Sharana Basaveshwara Purana, Itagi Bhimambika Purana and others. His brother Siddaiah Puranik is a famous Kannada laureate. His daughter Chandrika Puranik is also Kannada author and has served as Kannada lecturer various institutions in Bangalore.

== Works ==
* Sri Basaveshwara<ref>
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|first1 =
|title = Sri Basavesvara
|url = http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208631
|issue =
|publisher = Government Of Mysore Bangalore
|date = 1967
|access-date =
|archive-url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208631
|archive-date = 18 January 2017
|url-status = dead
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</ref>
* Vachana Mandara
* Channabasava Sahitya
* Vachana Saurabha
* Nyaaya Darushana

== See also ==
* [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
* [[Kannada literature]]
* [[Vachana Sahitya]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Kannada poets]]
[[Category:Kannada people]]
[[Category:Indian poetics]]
[[Category:1928 births]]
[[Category:2015 deaths]]

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