Y. N. Nagesh was born on 15-3-1960 to Mr. Narayan Rao and Mrs. Jayalakshmi. He hails from Holenaraseema in Hassan district and has written three hundred and fifty novels under the pen name ‘Kaundinya’. His achievement took a long thirty two years. Suspense, Thriller, witchcraft, family, scientific, ideological, social, mythological material, adolescent mental turmoil and social angst, farmer’s woes in most of his novels can be seen.
Innumerable, popular newspapers have published his novels in serial form and made them available to the readers. It is Dita who has made the name ‘Kaundinya’ reach the peak of popularity because of the love and curiosity of the reader. Another addition to that line is another novel by Atishaya Mahashaya ‘Amoghavarsha Nripatunga, dear readers… read this novel with intimacy without blinking an eye. We believe that it will.
Bhadravati Ramachari

Rajarpi Nripatunga, the greatest poet of the Rashtrakutas. What is the reason for this maharaja of Jana Dharma to take a sword, throw balls and shed blood even though he is committed to non-violence? What was the reason for the son Krishna, who was supposed to be the future Maharaja of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, to commit the crime of treason? Can the Maharaja, who adopted political rules and rajadharma in his administration, change? He forgets the honor of being a son and sentences his son to death for the crime of treason…! Is the prince a victim of this punishment? Nripatunga Maharaja’s emotional throes, torn between the two, the punishment of Rajdharma and the son, is an outstanding historical work