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Bhaskarah as left no indications of his time or life. Unmatta-Raghava is composed to entertain an assembly learned men, met together to pay homage to Vidyarany£*-If this latter were identical with the famous scholar of nagar, then the work must be assigned to the middle of 14-th century. This piece of a single act describes the soliloquies of Rama owing to the sudden disappearance of Sit5* in the recesses of a shady garden, where, on account of tb^ curse of Durvasas, blossom-collection is prohibited on pain / of the trespasser being turned to a deer, Agastya the mistake and restores Sita to Rama, freed from the of the unconscious curse. The whole story is a close imitatioW of the fourth act of Vikramorvasi. The composition/doos^ lack not high-soaring imagination and a natural diction,-
Vamana Bhatta Bana was born in the Trilinga country-He had his patron in the King Vema of Addanki—otherwise famous as Viranarayana. A copper plate grant 'mentions-his name and is dated Saka 1333 i.e. 1441 A. D. Besides 2* Bana is mentioned in the Sabda-Chandrika, as the pupil of Vidyaranya. This is quite probable, as Vijianagar was adjaceof: to the dominion of King Vira. This additional evidence assigns our poet to the last quarter of the I3th and the first of the 14th century A. D. The conjecture is that Vamana might: have been the original name and the addition of Bana was a later one, consequent on his successful execution of prose-work the Veeratiarayana Charitam^ in the plan of Harshacbarita* 1:li$Srmgara-bImshanti.-bhanam\sa drama of a, single act with its hero Vihsasekhara, describing his amorotas adve&tures. He is perhaps better than Bana in his mastery over poetry, and his prose, as far as it has been accessible, is^ well written afcd warrants the same remarks as Bana's,
i ilte, is a rare qualification. The drama however has for centuries had a high appreciation among the pandit classes*atiparinaya is a drama of five acts, describing the* f