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color. He fitted it for every purpose of use and magnificence. The subject that Bana's contemporaries handled was Love and the allied tender passions. The Love of Bana's theme is not "fancy's hot fire " nor " the suppliance and perfume of a. minute," On the other hand, it is something natural, inborn, and latent. The love of Bana, in short, is akin to the Divine-Love of Wordsworth's Laodamia :
.. ...'• " He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course equable and pure.'*
Vadibhasimha was an ascetic of the Digambara Jaina? sect, pupil of the Sage Pushpasena. His real name was Odeya-deva. " He puts down his interlocutary antagonists, as the lion does the elephant." Hence his present name. His tutor is the sole object of worship to him, a whose greatness transforms fools into geniuses." His native region seems to have hem the southern districts of the Madras Presidency, as his name indicates it. :Some of the Tinnevelly sects have such appellations. The. preface to the IJarshacharita forms the external evidence for the conclusion that Vadibhasimha lived later than Bana. The similarity of thought and expression between-two sets of general advice to the royal princes in two indeed different works, the Gadyachintamani and the Kadambari, combined with the close resemblances in the story-construction gives us a standard to discover their relative times. Again on bearing the false news of Bhqja's death, Kalidasa is traditionally
known to haye sung ^R|T ^RJ T^nT^RF 1 *I^[^T*^r ?R?^fcT! These words seem to be a very slight modification of our poet's liu^s;-7^which were occasioned in the talk of the mob— on the untimely, decease of King Satyandhara through the bad policy, of, Kash tan gar a. King Bhoja flourished in the-