lambhas. The third and the fourth books are solely devoted
'to the story of Udayana. The author Somadeva was a Kash-
merian contemporary of Kalhana and must have written his
work between 1063 and 1082 A. D. The collection in an
epitome of Gunadhyas's Brihatkatha, composed to console
Suryavati on the death of her grandson Harsha. In the pre-
^ace? the tales are told by Katyayana, the minister of Chandra-
gupta. They were carried away by a demon and repeated in
the Paisachi tongue, in .which tongue Gunadhya's work was
^supposed to have been written. It abounds in beautiful des-
'Criptions and contains a version of the original sources of the
plots of the Ratnavali and Vasavadatta. This poem not only
includes in it many of the Buddhist Jatakas, but a complete
recast of the first three books of the Panchatantra.
Srivara was born in A. D. 3414. He was pupil of the chronographer Jonaraja. He is often confused with Sridhara. .His Rathakauttika is almost a Sanskrit version of Abdul
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Rahman1 s Yusabjubkha. It is a series of stories like the f|
Katha-sarit^sagara and is written in verse. One of these describes the invasion of Rajaputana by Allauddin.
Something remains to be said of the prose of the Buddhist legends. A collection of them, called by Prof. Burnouf the Divyavadana, was discovered in Nepal by B, H. Hodgson and to us it forms a treasure of useful Buddhistic information. Written in fairly correct Sanskrit, it gives us a specimen of an 'Unaffected composition, yet not without a naked pathos of its •cWfa. Faults there are of grammatical construction, but they are found only in the speeches. These may either be ascribed .to the ignorance of the transcribers or may be said to have had -a purpose—to give a truistic appearance to the character of the