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is divided into five chapters, each of which again into a number tfprabandhas\m essays. There are 80such stories on the* whole,the first of these treating of the history of Vikramaditya^.
Sarngadhara was the son of Damodara. His grand-father Raghavadeva was minister of Hammira, the Sakambhari prince^. who reigned at Chittore in the thirteenth century. His Paddhati is an anthology of about 6,000 verses culled froin 264. different works and authors. It was probably composed about the fourteenth century. In 163 parichkedas, it brings together the gems of.Sanskrit poetry, under various headings,
Rajasekhara, the younger, lived near Patna* His P?&-
bandhakosals a collection of half-historical tales and biographies
in barbarous Sanskrit prose, the style resembling that of the
T Panchatantra. All his information was obtained from Ms
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teacher Tilakasuri and the work was finished at Delhi in
Samvat 1405 (1348 A.D.) His patron was Madanasimha,the son of Jayasimlia, an intimate favourite of Mahamad Toghlak Shah.
Vedanta Desika the renowned author of the Yadavabbyu-.daya, lived inthe I4th century. His Hamsasandesa is a poerrit on the model of Kalidasa's original. *4It is grafted on the well-known story of Rama. The plot combines the advantage of fiction, while it gains in illusive power by a short of veri-simili-tude in being so grafted on what is believed to be historical^' On the banks of the Pampa lake Rama beholds a swan, and, reminded of his lost wife, he imagines the swan as a messenger to . his beloved Sita at Lanka. The path is arranged through some of the famous shrines and rivers. Sita's condition inpri-** ' son is most pathetically described. " Perhaps judged with the^
•' western canons of criticism, the poem may be found wanting^that, too, not only at the end of, but within metrical lines. Theart an4 im^naacts, describing the* f