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learning and devotion, seem not to have liked his dramatic authorship and his association with sirigfcrs and dancers. His time 2 Data of determination*.—
(i) According to the Rajatafangini, Bhavabhuti was patronised hy Yasovarman, King of Kanouf. He was subdued by Lalitaditya of Kashmir , * who acquired by his conquests a paramount supremacy over a large part of India and this king reigned between 693 and 729 A. D.
(ii) Kalhana's chronicle mentions another poet Vakpati
Raja at the same court. A work in prakrit Gauda-
vaho has been, discovered of this author. In it
the exploits of Yasovarman and his defeat of a
Gauda King are narrated. In giving his own
history, he says his excellence shall shine in his
r	works, like drops of nectar from the ocean of
Bhavabhuti:—

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<<ui) The prefatory stanzas of the Harshacharital, forming a rapid critical view of the predecessors in the field of poetry, do not mention our poet's narae^ It Js probable, therefore, that BhlvaMmti %vas tK)t toown to the author of the Charita*
(iv) The internal evidence based orx fctyle 'necessarily confirms the above view* of $bouf the 3th ^'enttiry,. His. works clearly belong to a later period when a new ^tylel of composition was forming particularly in the department of description. It is -trie period of Subandhu, Datdin and Bana, afcd the prose of our author bears a marked f 0set&bkntfe t^O