 Ascribed to him is a group of 100 poems called the "Nambiyanana ragale" (also called "Shivaganada ragale" or "Saranacharitamanasa" – "The holy lake of the lives of the devotees") after the saint Nambiyana.In the "sataka" metre he wrote the "Pampa sataka", and in the "ashtaka" metre, the "Mudige ashtaka" in about 1200.Famous among Vaishnava writers and the first brahmin writer (of the Smartha sect) of repute, Rudrabhatta wrote "Jagannatha Vijaya" (1180) in a style considered a transition between ancient and medieval Kannada.