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panegyrics in different vernaculars sixteen in number. The Narasimha-vijayam describes the story of the incarnation of Vishnu and the killing of Hiranyaksha, His style is always very musical and refined. We can see no confusion of rhetorical* devices and the narration is successfully managed.
Pattubhatta was born in the village of Kakamranipura near Musilipatam, He, was a brahmin of the Vadhula clan. His Prasanga^ratnavali was written in Saka 1338 (AJX 1416). It is a collection of miscellaneous descriptions and comprises • stanzas on moral and social duties, rules for particular ceremonies and personal conduct and sketches of individual biography and character. The 7/th chapter gives short accounts o£ princes from the great Vikramaditya to Simhabhupati, Raja of Pittapur. The ideas ace short and concise. Proverbial expressions are abundant. The. whole work is written in a flowery and obscure style and there is little of true history in it. The author however was a poet> true and unstrained. His language shows much of literary acquaintance.
Dhaaadaraja was the son of Dehala and came of the-Sona race. Like Bhartrihari he composed his three Satakas on Sringara, Niti and Fairagya in A. D. 1434 but ths language is not so unornamented as that of Bhartrihari. The ideas are more advanced and more artfully clothed.
Sayana was the elder brother of Madhava and prime-minister to King Kanipa, the brother of Bukka. He therefore belongs to the beginning of the 15^ century. His SubhasMta-SitdtianidM eulogises his patron and was compiled solely to -enlighten him. It is an anthology with eighty-fourpaddhatis* The>collection was meant_to inculcate the duties of a King*.i describes the history of Rama. The Kwalayti&v&>-ckayilam is a prakrit poetn. The Psas*fti>r*toa&aK is a collection ofiticism, 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