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century. His Nemiduta, is a beautiful little poem of stanzas. Nemi of the Yadu race, longing for salvation, up his riches and in his wanderings took shelter in an
the sam.eas was the resort of the forlorn Yaksha of Kali<3as^ / His wife followed him and seeing her hutsbandentirely imt> *^e J? ascetic tendencies asked a mountain to- carry a message, story keeps close pace with the Meghaduta and what is wonderfulis that every last line of the latter work is . unhandled and the three other lines are. framed to suit'toe meaning and the context. The poet had apparently an else in Samasya-pwanam.
Visveswara has been assigned to the eighteenth His full life has been given in the chapter o» the dramatic literature. He is a very successful lyric poet and famedl for melody ami grace oflangnrage. At least three of his poems are worth mention. His > Ramavalisatakam and safafcam are two centuries of highly imaginative, verses. Tlieir names denote the subject. His Shad-ritnvarnanam describes ix* order all the six Indian seasons after the plan of the Ritusairn-hara. Descriptions of natural scenery , are vividly touched a.nd> some of the lines are more musical than Kalidasa's.
Vrajanatha was the son of Ramakrishna. He was a Tailio-ga Brahmin of the N. W. Provinces. He wrote his dliti Kavya in A.D. rysS at Brindatavi. It describes devout reflections of Draupadi on Krishna during the ol her outrage at Duryodhana's court. The poem closes with the description of the endless expansion, of Dranpacil/s^ apparel and the consequent disgrace to the Kaurava princos. The plan of the poem was undoubtedly* suggested by the Meghaduta, But it is no bare imitation of Kalidasa's work, odg*.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