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close of the nth century. His Krishna- Karnamvita is a lyri<3 praise of Krishna, with three parts each of one hundred and o stanzas. It has been a daily recital of ail youngsters in and is appreciated mostly for its music and harmony* thoughts embodied in some of the, verses. ,are a fit in gesture-dancing, .
s Kshemendra's Charucharya is a century of aphorisms in simple Sanskrit, each with a proverbial sanction-the orthodox kind appended to it, which gives a quaint a net pleasing picture of virtue's ways of the Kashmir of his
Bilhana, the Kashmirian poet of the twielfth centtiryv wrote the Chaura-panchcisika. It is a collection of about fifty yerses, recapitulating the pleasures of his company with Sstsi-lekha, ; a princess whose tutor he was. The occasion for ^ composition was when he was taken to the gallows to executed for having enticed his student princess to a mnion. The-icleas were so appealing^ the verse so charming and the sincerity so truth-reflecting,that he vvas pardoned and givem-the hand of his beloved Sasilekha. To-day the work is the dard of a delightful lyric and no youth of India fails to get up heart at least a few of these verses. •
j Sridharadasa wrote his Sadiikti-Karnamrita in It contains quotations from 446 poets, mostly of Bengal. ^rk. represents the author's father in the service of king manasena.
Merutunga was a Jain by religion. He had a historic^ & taste .and so composed the Prabandka-chintamani at Wadhwaor^ on the Visakha full moon Samvat 1362 (A.D. 1306)* The wprtenasena of 1116 A.D. Lilasuka must have lived at theve.