Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari, the highly acclaimed and widely read Kannada Version of the Mahabharata, was released in CD format by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. The text is popular known as Kumaravyasa Bharata and is credited to Gadugina Narayanappa.
Kumaravyasa Bharata has only the first ten chapters of the original Mahabharata epic.