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(#2) The Varsa-krtya, dealing with the fasts and festivals 
during the year. No MS. yet found. Quoted in Raghunan- 
dan 
(iv) The Vibhaga-sara,! set essence of partition, on in- 
heritance and partition. It seems to - llow the headings of 
the Kalpa-taru and the Vivada- raind akar 
Vidyapati gives very little sntdnielitiork of himself and none 
of his ancestors. In the end verse of the Ganga-vakyavals 
and the Dana-vakyavalt, Vidyapati called himself suri or the 
learned. In Ganapati’s Ganga-bhakti-tarangint Vidyapati is 
called Upadhyaya, In the final colophon of the MS. of 
Kavya-prakasa-viveka copied by his order, Vidyapati is described | 
as Sa- prakriya-sadupadhyaya-T hakkura- Sri- Vidyapatt. Accord- 
ing to tradition he belonged to the family of eq meibes Thak- 
kura ; ue of this no authentic proof has been yet fo 
e characteristic feature of Vidyapati’s site is that 
they were written under the patronage of one or other member 
of the royal family of Kamesvara; and in some instances the 
works were even attributed to them. The mention of these royal 
members has been found useful in my paper on the History 
of Mithila; so the works are noted below with the names of the 
Toyal member against each, chronologically arranged :— 
(t) The Kirtti- lata, mixed Sanskrit and Maithili poem in 
praise of agi simha (and Virasimha). 
(%t) The Bhi-parikrama-grantha, moral tales told to Bala- 
deva during his dake ie Janaka-desa, by order of Devasimha 
aS his son Sivas rr 
tii) The pee — sit, moral tales, by order of Siva- 
simha (expanded from No. 
(tv) The Kirti-patit, an : amatory poem in Maithili, in the 
time of Sivas 
(vi ii) The siren isc on pi religious rites in connec- 
tion with the Ganges, attributed to Visvasadevi, queen of 
masimha. 
(vid) The Saiva-sarvvasva-sara, on the essence of the Saiva- 
Worship, attributed to Visvasadevi 
e Dana-vakyavalt, on the religious gifts and their 
"pea attributed to Dhiramatidevi, queen of Narasimha- 
1 R. Mitra, Nobiow, V1, p- a, ie. ,. 2037. 
