Mankutimmana Kagga Introduction

Hi everyone,
As per request by Ramakrishna in a previous post, I am now providing a background to the poem Mankutimmana Kagga.
"Kagga" is a form of Kannada literature that involves a long work of many verses, that are neither like stanzas of a poem nor like paragraphs in prose. Thy are more like big compilations of Shlokas or Shayaris.
Mankutimmana Kagga was written by a notable Kannada Litterateur Dr. D V Gundappa. He also translated Omar Khayyam, many works of Shakespeare, and many Greek plays into Kannada. He was also an Engineer and a close aide to M Visveswaraiah during the construction of K.R.S. Dam across Kaveri.
The work itself is considered by many as a collection of the quintessence of Veda, Vedantas, Brahma Sutras and Dharma Sutras. And it has been referred to many times as the Bhagavadgeetha in Kannada. Having said that, the great thing about Kagga is that it doesn't conform to any religion or any philosophy. As the author himself says in the end, he wrote it based on his own experiences in life.