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Ramavarma was born near Kanchi in the Keralas. He was of the royal family of Kulasekhara. Born in 1755, he died an uncrowned prince in 1787 A. D. His Rukminiparinaya, a drama of five acts, relates the marriage of Krishna and Rukmini. Among his other works are Kartavirya- Vijaya~chamf>u and Sringara-sudhakara-fihana.
Visvesvara was the son of Laxmidhara of the race of Pande. He was born in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Deveswara, eighth in descent from him, is still known to be living near Anupasahar on the Ganges- He began his writings when Ee was barely tea and ended his active literary career in the fortieth year of his age.. About twenty-five works of his have comedown to us. He was a perfect adept in lyric and rhetoric. His Navamalika is a natikairr four acts> following mechanically the plan of the RamavaLL Sringara-manjariis Sattaka in.pure/ra£r& The name is that of the heroine and the plot of the work was obviously suggested by the Karpuramanjari of Rajasekhara. Whatever may be the faults of construction, the poetry has much ease and music in it.
Rameswara was the son of Ratnadeva Tarkavagisa. fie was a native of VaHga and flourished in the fix st half of the iStk century. His patron was Chitrasena, King^ ofMana. His Chandva-bhishekot. is a drarnai in seven aets and describes the story of the destruction of the Nandas by Chanakya and;the coronation of Chandragupta. The scene in the seventh act is interesting, where Rakshasa receives a letter that the Nandas are at the point of death owing to a burning fever produced by a Yoga commenced by Chanakya. The style resembles Visakhadatta's as also the plot istelf. But the. tricks of policy, that are so 8