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by sober history, assigns to Bhoja and Kalidasa, the combined
authorship  of the work.   This view is based on  Bhallala's
Bhojaprabanda, a very uncertain storyto rely upon. The style
is very refined and the ideas are equally so. As a learned pandit
once remarked, the language of Bhoja has a royal tinge in it,
whereas that of other poets shows a touch of dependence.
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Next to Bhoja Harichandra deserves our consideration.
The question of the identity of this author with the other,
whom we have spoken of as the inaugurator of Sanskrit
romance, has been discussed there. As to the exact age of his
work, the Jivandharachampu, no information has reached us
either from internal evidence or from external reference. The
text itself.is still in the manuscript-form so that its very
existence is obscure. With all this, it must occupy our atten-	:
tion because of it£ language.    An examination of the ideas	m
and their expression must necessarily assign the work not to a ^ very late period of the history of the Champu Kavyas. From the introductory verses, the author appears to be a Jain. The book consists of eleven Lambhas and every one of these has its own beauties of composition. The music of wording is what is most notable. The forms of words are not highly learned and the text is easily understandable.
Venkatadhvari was the son of Raghunatha. He was born in the village of Arsanapale near Kanchi. He was a follower of the Ramanuja school of philosophy. He was well-versed in logic, philosophy and the commentaries. He was a contemporary of Nilakantha and must therefore have flourished in ike i^th century. He was the chief pandit at the court of Fralayakaveri. His Laxmisahasram is a poem of 1000 stanzas sin .praise of Laxmi, whods said to have been pleased with his