 Kannada literature during this period consisted of writings relating to the socio-religious developments of the Jain and Veerashaiva faiths, and to a lesser extent that of the Vaishnava faith.The earliest well-known brahmin writers in Kannada were from the Hoysala court.While most of the courtly textual production was in Kannada, an important corpus of monastic Vaishnava literature relating to "Dvaita" (dualistic) philosophy was written by the renowned philosopher Madhvacharya in Sanskrit.