Mysura Mallige Devraj Bahadur Award (1943)

State Sahitya Akademi award (1974)

Central Sahitya Akademi award (1978)

Kerala’s Kumaran Ashaan award (1987)

Secretary of All India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan at Mysore in 1990

National Award for Best Lyrics in 1992

Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Bengaluru University (1992)

Masti Prashasti (1996)

Pampa Prashasthi (1997)

Honorary Fellowship of Central Sahitya Akademi (1999)

Gorur Sahitya Prashasthi (2000)