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fancies are good and fresh, and his lines have an air of simplicity around them.
Yuvaraja was a native of Kotilingapura in the Kerala« j country. No evidence has been attainable regarding his life-
or lineage. He can safely on the evidence of style be assigned } to the 15 or the i6th century. His Rammdana-bhana is.a
1 dramatic poem of a single act, composed on the occasion of a?
\ Kali festival. The ruling sentiment is love. A Vita is the
hero s&d narrator. His ideas are very fanciful and beautiful and he not unfrequently writes in the Vaidarbhi style.. .Sonus? , j of his fancies are rather rare and significant :•—
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At times his metres are generally strange and perhaps^ slightly unmelodious (82, rob). On the whole, however, hi&= Ramacharita, a poem lately printed in Puna, presents mucbh \ of poetic art and natural description;
\ ••• Mathuradasa was born of the Kayasta sect in the city of
I''- Suvarnasekhara near the banks of the Jumna. He was a
;': votary of Krishna and pupil of the learned Krishnadasa^
!'« K^earch has not yet identified our poet's native city. It is
conjectured he might have lived somewhere aboutrthe isih' J cbki&y; or perhaps earlier. His drama, Vfisha^hanuja^ is i
Natika of foar acts and describes the Icive of Krishna the: of Nafida an?d Radha the daughter of VrishaWiai|U.losely the idyl of Jayadeva on the same subject. His Danakelikaumudi belongs to the Bhana class of dramatic composition with its self-same hero Krishna. Rupa is a true poet and his verse is always of an ^unstrained construction* Long compounds do not mar the effect of easy intelligibility. Not urifrequently his poeticfor centuries had a high appreciation among the pandit classes*atiparinaya is a drama of five acts, describing the* f