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ance in power of the Sena family of Bengal kings. The verse runs as 

 follows : — 



Of these Uinapatidhara is the writer of the Deopada inscription ; Jaya- 

 deva is the well-known author of the exquisite lyric Gitagovinda ; and 

 Gobardhanacaryya is the author of the Aryya Sapta9ati. We know very 

 little of ?![??H and vt^. We also know of no woik by Gobardhana 

 which comes to the description given above, i.e., on a love-subject. 



Pandit Raghurama Tnrkaratnaof Visnupura in B^kuda had a copy 

 of a work by "Vt^ entitled ^^if^. It has been noticed in the Second 

 Series of the Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts, Vol. I, Part II. On my 

 application Pandit Raghurama sent the MS. to me and I copied 

 it for my own use. It is written in imitation of Kalidasa's inimitable 

 work the Meghaduta. It begins with a description of an imaginary 

 golden city at the top of the Sandalwood Mountain, Candanadri, in the 

 oxtreme south of India. There in that city dwelt a damsel belonging to 

 the race of the celestial musicians, the Gandharvas. Eer name was 

 Kavalayavati. Laksmana Sena, in his conquest of the world came to the 

 South. She saw him, and, unknown to him, she fell in love. 



Maddened in the advent of the spring and finding the South wind 

 blowing to the North, she resolved upon making the wind her 

 messenger. As in the Meghaduta, the road is described. A few miles 

 from the Candanadri is the Pandyadeya with its capital Uraga on the 

 Tamraparni abounding in betel-nut trees. Uraga is mentioned by 

 Kalidasa also, as the capital of the Pandyade9a in the sixth canto of his 

 Raghuvanga ; though modern Arch geologists think that Uraiyura was 

 the capital of the Chola ; while Madura was the capital of the Pandya 

 country. Mallinath thinks that Uragapura was Nagapura or Naga- 

 pattana. In the MS. itself there is a note to the effect that Uraga is 

 NSgapura. 



