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Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, popularly known as Da. Ra. Bendre, was a Kannada poet of the Navodaya Period. He was given the honorific Varakavi. Bendre was awarded the Jnanapita for his 1964 poetry collection, ನಾಕು ತಂತಿ. Bendre published most of his work as ಅಂಬಿಕಾತನಯದತ್ತ.