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
1ds of Pashanda worship and the practice of human sacrifices offered to Chamunda, to some of which he alludes in his works. In his own day he enjoyed a high reputation f©r his learning and was honoured by his contemporaries by the title of Srikautha, as one 4 ^ffr°Tf*T4 33T ^