in praise.of the poet's, patron. The chief .peculiarity of • the work is that unlike; similar: works this has .interlaced into it a drama in five, acts, celebrating the king's, exploits from wlxich he . exemplifies the .technicalities .of Sanskirt dramaturgy* This mode is impressive and instructive, though as a drara*3**0 production the piece has no high value. His work .breathes the-spirit of an age which prognosticated the rapid* decay <>f dramatic literature. In fis hands the saying 'poeta nvsc**™* won fit* has been Father inverted. '-• • .••',,';''• ,-••.-
... Visvanatha Kayiraja lived about A. D, 136,5. :H;e is tooth a poet and rhetorician,. His SaMtya-darpqna is an exhaurstlyes treatise in ten chapters on the plan of the Kavyaprafcasa. His mode of expression : is instructive and. imptesslve, 'Tfae prose is more elaborate and the thoughts . put on an air of refinement. W& ^yapr^kasa^arpana is a runnig ciorn-njentary on Mamtnata's work. . The authorship of these seorfes mnst have foMpwed tb& x^ositiQa of hisjwtftes; Chandra*: a la
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la was a contemporary Qf King Pratapa-Tudra of the fourteenth omt^y A..D, Be refer-s to Bhoja an'4 Sarngadeva> His Rasaniava-sudkakar^ is a ^ short tf eajtise. oil poetics and treats of the nature of hferoes, th/e different' seiiti, m«nts and lastly of "the constf tietion M dra^^ Many of t**'*' ''^
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