Nagavarma II was honored with the title "poet laureate" ("Katakacharya") and "military teacher" ("Katakopadhyaya") by Chalukya King Jagadhekamalla. His most famous works are "Kavyavalokana" ("Treatise on the art of poetry) on grammar, rhetoric and poetics; "Karnataka-Bhashabhushana" ("Ornament of the Karnataka language"), on grammar; "Vastukosa" (or "Abhidanavastukosa", "lit", "Treasury of significations"), a lexicon; and "Varadhamanapurana", a Jain purana ("epic"). Nagavarma II's grammatical model is based on the Katantra school of Sanskrit grammar and the author styles himself "Abhinava Sarvavarma" ("Modern Sarvavarma"), Sarvavarma being a noted Sanskrit grammarian to a Satavahana king.