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Pandava-vijayam of unknown authorship is a long poem of more than an estimated volume of 2,000 folios — bigger than the Mahabharata. It is a medley of history and fiction. It •describes the most noted places in India, summing up all tradition connected with each place. It is remarkable as giving ^ a^ °^ * '
*nc*ian manners and customs before and 'after conquest. The work has not yet been fully nor ransacked and the conjecture is that it must been composed about the ijih century . The language. however is reported to be in the style of the Kavyas and the descriptions are enlivening and not necessarily .monotonous.
Jagannadha Pandita Raja flourished in the seventeenth century. As a rhetorician, his life is better t known in a later -chapter. His lyrics are lucid and musical. The Amritalahari celebrates the. praise to Jumna, and the Karunalahari to Vishnu. The Pranahharana describes "the splendour of King Prana Narayana of Karharupa. Lastly the Bha.minivilasa is widely known and is a collection of verses describing the amours of women. Everywhere his verse have a natural flow and his technical learning, does not as usual mar by it§ interference the beauties of lyrical poetry.
Madhava flourished about the end of the t^th century. The oldest MS. "of his Dddhavaduta \s> dated 1742 Saka in the town of Talita. The subject is the message to Krishna *sent through Uddbava by a milkmaid Vrindavana. The work is a slavish imitation of the Meghaduta.
: Vikrama was the son of Sangama, He flourished in -square of ouf modefn Ceded Districts about the first half of thehe>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