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centuries. At times the thoughts are voluptuous, but every- \
where his width of knowledge is apparent. In style he '<
compares with Bharavi and is less stiff than Harsha. Its plot f
relates to Krishna's slaying of Sisupala. The Rajasuya; sacrifice of Yudhistira is described wherein Sisupala's misconduct to Krishna—the immediate cause of the war—is carefully delineated. The three last cantos are solely devoted to the actual warfare.
Kaviraja's Raghava-Pandaviya—a poem celebrating; the story of the Kosalas and Kauravas at the same time.. The ideas are founded on the choice of words and the parano-rriasia on them* The poet's history is utterly in the dark, but he appears to have flourished about the beginning of the Qlfc century. The name Kaviraja appears to be an epithet rather ' than the name proper. Duff's chronology makes Srutakirti ^ the author of the poem whose name is mentioned in an inscription dated 1130 A. D. In that case the poem must be assigned to about the loth or nth centuries,
Padmagupta's Navasahasankacharita is a poeoi written in honor of Sindhuraja. The author was a poet-laureate under the Parama King Munja (974—995) and Sindhuraja (995—loto) and so the work was composed about the end of the 10th century.
Bilhana was born in the village of Konamukha near
Pravarapura, of Jyestakalasa and Magadevi in the race of the-
Kausikas. Passing the career of education at Kashmir, he
\ dwelt near Mathura engaged in playful disputes with the
-^ JPandits of Brindavan. He.had made a special study of
grammar and poetics and now began his tour to distant royaldin's Kavyadarsa. , ^exactly in most of their minute particulars. Of course it must be admitted that their present form. Quite the, ^