 The narration has many noteworthy elegiac verses such as the mourning of Chandramati over the death of her young son Lohitashva from snake bite.The very writing that made Raghavanka famous was rejected by his guru, Harihara.His other well-known writings, adhering to strict Shaiva principles and written to appease his guru, are the "Siddharama charitra" (or "Siddharama Purana"), a larger than life stylistic eulogy of the compassionate 12th-century Veerashaiva saint, Siddharama of Sonnalige; the "Somanatha charitra", a propagandist work that describes the life of saint Somayya (or Adaiah) of Puligere (modern Lakshmeshwar), his humiliation by a Jain girl and his revenge; the "Viresvara charita", a dramatic story of the blind wrath of a Shaiva warrior, Virabhadra; the "Hariharamahatva", an account of the life of Harisvara of Hampi; and "Sarabha charitra".