is numerous but many of them are not yet accessible. one of these reverts to the original beauty of the early day s the chronicle of sanskirt prose.
Krishnarya Kavi-Gandabherunda was patronised Ramakrishnaraj, a wealthy Zamindar of Vanaparti. He his Rdmesvtiravijaya somewher§ about 1840 A. D. It commands no respect from us, but that it is in the Sanskrit The mischief of the growing tendency of prosaic evils is complete and it cannot become worse, Long compounds without any suggestive sense, jingling alliteration without artistic
elegance and an unintelligible interlacing of confused figures-----
these are every where-conspicuous. A quotation must mak^ a stronger impression :
"cre^ SWFT fsRarf^^ ^rawi*TO<reTO
CHAPTER IX.
FABLES AND FAIRY TALES. The controversy that was carried on ^towards the end. of"
the last century between the advocates of the Eastern and Northern origin of European fiction had reference especially to a particular class of creations — to those of chivalric romanco- -to the marvellous exploits magnified out of the traditional achievements wrought by the companion Knights of t:t*o Rout|d Table or the Paladins of France. "V\pth all confidence t a different tlajss of fiction, that, at a later age, found accession century In six vilasas, it recapitulates the story of Krishna, as related in the purana* T^e poetry does not point to any close similarity with the language of Kalidasa's. The prose passages are devoid of all lucidity or simplicity. The verse however is varied and the composition learned. The benedictions are in praise of Siva and Gauru