1
'35 P
known. The third work has been discovered to be ;
the Chancjovichitu This work having been refer- '' red to by Subaudhu *
Dan.din must h^vQ been Subhandhu's predecessor*
Apart from these wid$ differences of views, Dandin's masterly style is not compatibly with a late age in the history of Sanskrit romance." The subjects of the story are those taken from domestic life and comnotaad our attention as pictures of Hindu society at the beginnings of the Muhamadan conquest. The heroes are characterised by a hardy and enterprising spirit, by persevering devotion to their friends and by tender attachment to the objects of their devotion.
The style is that of an elaborate description which gives it ^ the general name of a Kavya. The poetical elevation is not » however uniformly sustained, although the language is almost throughout easily intelligible as well as elegant. Indeed, passages occur in which from the use of compound words ot unusual length, from the complicated grammatical structure and from a protraction and suspension of the governing term, the perspecuity of language is slightly obscured. Yet the work, as a whole, can opcasiori no great embarrassment to a practised scholar, while it affords him a useful example of classical prose-composition. Besides, the romance of Darjdin furnishes in some of its peculiarities a favourable opportunity for the study of grammatical forms. The author affects the use of derivative forms and presents a greater number of causal and desiderative inflections. Tradition however has not accounted for the absolute absence of any of the intensive or frequentative tenses. But such fancies as the absolute exclusion of certain words or grammatical forms are not unknown to Sanskritperstructure upon. resembles the Brahmanas but with a few varMfcm. tke temts of the Bhashyas have