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•pJot seems to be based on Sri Harsha's Naishadhiyam, details have not been accessible.
Ramabhadra was born in the family of Chaturvedi-yajvans in the village of Kandara-manikyam near Kumba-konanu His father was Yagnarama Dikshit, a specialist !*•»• >Grammar and the Darsamas. He was himself a sontn^i grammarian and he was known among his friends as Pratyagra*-patanjaO* Thomgh a Saivite, he was a stamtirch votary of Rama and every one of his writings;.bears upon; the story of Rama. He was pupil of Nilakantha, who on the authority of his own champu flourished about 163$ A.D. So his work, the Janakiparinaya, a drama in. 7 acts, is safely assigned to tfae^ middle of the ijth century. The records of Tanjpre show that our poet settled in Shahirajpur in 1693. His demise must have been somewhere near the beginning of the eighteenth. century. The drama obviously treats of Rama and his life. The plot is very skilfully woven. The version of ValmiJki is in no way strictly adhered t$. The first four acts are purely the work of the poet's imagination. The play is a counterpart of the Comedy of Errors* Two sets of characters are brought to action, the on$ genunine and the other disguised, so that a confusion arises among themselves when they are made tor meet each other. Vidyujjihva, Ravana and Saratta appear - respecting 2s Kausika, Rama and LaxnMtm anrf so does Tatar k^ as Sita. The marriage df Ramaarrd*Sj4ta'contes up not atMIthiltf but at the* hermitage of Visvamitra. Most liotetrortfiy is ^tf inter-drama, enacted at Ravana's durbar. TBe sub-plot begifisr with Rama's search for Sita and closes with Vali's warfare. Tie bet* mt brings up the culmination of tbe mischief of tire felsttaas* Surp^naka sbawe* ii®rsdf to Bha^ta in the disguise of a la^fasi 'atid.kads him to a nmsappfehenston of a high appreciation among the pandit classes*atiparinaya is a drama of five acts, describing the* f