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Dhar, and so belongs to the tenth century A. D. The language shows a natural flow and musical charm.
Jayadeva, the author of the Gita Govmda, was the soft of Bhojadeva and Vamadevu He was a high caste brahmin ®£ the Kayastha sect in Bengal and native of Timdubilva. A devotee of Krishna, he sung his praise before an idol of the god and allowed his wife to dance in accompaniment to his songs* He was in life a court-poet of Laxmanasena, a Vaidya King of Bengal, whose inscription at Gaya is dated Samvat 1173 or A, D.I n 6. So oar poet falls about the same time. The work has twelve sargas and each contains twenty-four asta-padis. Each of these begins with a chorus followed by eight "feet, at the end of each of which the chorus is repeated. The work is note-worthy as one of the few that have come down t0 US fr°m a rernote antiquity and gives us some insight the music of ancient India.
Govardhana's Aryasaptasati served as the model for the satfa-sai<& Bihari Lai. Referred to by Jayadeva> he must have flourished about the end of the nth centurv.
Vilvamangala or Lilasuka was a brahmin of Somagiri. He had a concubine Chintamani, who, good and pious as she was, preached to him devotion to Krishna. Thereupon he learnt from a Yati the Knsha-mantra whereby he propitiated the divine being by his sincerest devotions. " After his death, he was born as Jayadeva and composed the Gitagovinda. In the next birth he was born as Narayanatirtha, also a votary of Krishna and wrote the Krishnalilatarangini." This legend at least shows that the author preceded Jayadeva of the court of Laxmanasena of 1116 A.D. Lilasuka must have lived at theve.