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Jagannadha was the son of Perubhatta and Laxmu He was a Tailinga of the Vejinada race. He studied poetry and rhetoric under his father and logic and grammar at Benares. He was entertained at the court of Emperor Shah Jehan (1628-. 1658) and Prince Dara was his favourite patron. Tradition says he fell in love with a lady of the Muslim court and had secret intrigues with her. She was dead and her separation < caused his retirement. He spent the rest of his life at Muttra, where he died in 1674 A, D, The Rasagangadhara is his master-piece in rhetoric. It stops with the Uttaralankara probably in imitation of the Chitramimamsa of Appayyadikshit, whose views he critically exposed in his Chitramimamsa-khandana. He is always selfconscious and independent. There is a sort of dignity and learning in his argument and explanation. His language however is not simple but necessitates an acquaintance with dialectics. His lyrical works have found a place in a previous chapter.
Visvesvara has been dealt with as the author of dramas • and lyric poems. He is no less a rhetorician. His Kavindra-JKarnabharana illustrates many tricks of poetry and is planned after the manner of the Vidagdha-mukhamandana. Among other works are the Alankara-kaustubha, Alankara-muktavali and Kavyatilakam.
Kalyana was the son of Subrahmanya of the family of Pervi. His Alankara-Kaustubha was written in honor of God. Padmanabha and of King Balarama Varma of Travancore (1798-1810 A.D.). A work of the same name was written by Kavikarnapura about A. D. J 545,
Gangadasa gives no clue to his history. He appears, on oral information, to have flourished in the latter half of the- written about the middle of the sixteenth century*. He also composed the Chandrakalapa^ to which he refers his readers for detail.