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have borrowed a couplet from the former; or the former, from the latter: 

 and Bana may have introduced, quotationwise, into his Harsha-charita, 

 from a work not his own, the fatalistic verses of the Ratnuvali, How- 

 ever all this may have been, it is scarcely questionable, that the Hatna- 

 vali, the Ndg&nanda, and the Sarslia-charita, were produced in the 

 seventh century, and at the court of Harsha of Kanauj ; and it will, 

 perhaps, still be proved, that the first and the third were from the 

 pen of one and the same person.* 



" The mere question," observes Dr. Rowland Williams, " whether 

 the court at which Kaliclasa nourished is that of Vikramaditj'a, at 

 [in] Malava, 56 B. C, or that of another prince, at Ujjayini, [ ? ] 

 nearly a thousand years later, shows the uncertainty of most things 

 in Indian literature. "f A Kaliclasa, and indubitably the greater 

 Kalidasa, being noted with eulogy by Bana,J it will not answer, any 

 longer, to think of bringing him clown to the days of Bhoja of 

 Dhara.§ Indeed, no good cause has as yet been produced for 

 rejecting the Indian tradition, that Kalidasa antedated the Christian 

 era. 



One poet more remains, whose connexion with Kanauj may be 

 counted a certainty. I mean Rajas'ekhara, author of the Viddha- 

 s' dla-bhanjikd, of the Praclianda-pdndava, or Bala-bliarata, of the_5aZa- 

 ramdyana,\\ and of the Karpura-manjari. In all four works, he speaks of 

 his patron as being Mahendrapala, of the city of Mahodaya. Mahendra- 

 pala is also called Mahipala ; and his father, Nirbhayanarendra. To the 



by the shafts of Ananga. Albeit a guardian in name, thou dost not defend. 

 Hypocritically art thou compassionate. Who is more extremely cruel than 

 thou ?' May the Buddha, victorious over his passions, who was thus enviously 

 addressed by the mistresses of Mara, protect you." 



Jina is the generic appellation of any Buddha ; but here, I think, the word 

 i9 the subject of a paronomasia. 



* S'itikantha, in his commentary on the Kdoya-prakds'a, the Kdvya-praJcds' a- 

 nidars'ana, gives Bana, not Dhavaka, as Mammata's name of the poet who was 

 enriched by Harsha. He does not speak of the Ratndvali as being the work 

 which brought gain to the poet ; but the omission is supplied by other annota- 

 tors, such as Yaidyanatha, Jayaraina, and Nages'a. See the Preface to the 

 Vasavadattd, p. 16, foot-note. 



+ P. 287 of Christianity and Hinduism. Cambridge : 1856. 



% See the Preface to the Vasavadattd, pp. 14, 15, foot-note. 



§ It is high time to give up speaking of this prince as a great patron of litera- 

 ture. His pretensions to be so considered rest on the frailest foundation pos- 

 sible. 



|| Professor Wilson knew it by a reference only. I have seen a complete 

 copy ; the property of Esoba S'astrin, of Saugor. It is in ten acts. 



