§ 150.] 
THE AES POETICA. [ 1680—1692 A.D.] 
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Sun,, Sat. Not only a patron of poets, but author of an admired 
work. It is in the erotic style, and is called Kabya Nirall. It is 
considered the best work on lovers extant. He was a great friend of 
Matt Ram Tripath1 (No. 146). 
148. Nil Kanth Tripath'i, alias data 
Saykar, of Tik’mpaur, district Kanh’pur. FI. cir. 1650 A.D. 
Nir., Sat. A brother of Chintamam Tripath ] (No. 143). No 
complete works by him are known to be extant. 
149. ttvvttxt ^Tf?, the bard Par’tap Sahi, 1 of Bundel’khand. 
FI. 1633 (?) A.D. 
He was son of the poet Rat’nes (No. 199), and attended the court 
of king Chhattr' Sal (No. 197), of Par’na (Parma). He wrote a work 
on vernacular composition (*TP3T ?nf^Hf) entitled Kabya Bilas. At 
the suggestion of Bikram Sahi he wrote a commentary to the Bhakha 
Bhukhan and to the Nakh’sikh (see note to No. 87) of Balibhadr ’ 
(No. 135). Another work of his is entitled the Bigyarthakaumudl . 
I do not know the work here entitled Bhakha Bhukhan. The only 
work of that name with which I am acquainted was written by 
Jas’iuant Siygh (No. 377) at the end of the eighteenth century, and 
has been frequently commentated on. Who the Bikram Sahi 
referred to above is I do not know. He cannot be the well-known 
Bikram Sahi of Char’khari (No. 514) if the account given above, 
which is that given in the Sib Siygh Sardj, is correct. Bikram of 
Char’khari flourished in 1804 A.D. If he is the man referred to, then 
the poet cannot have attended the court of Chhattr’ Sal (fl. 1650), and 
the Bhakha Bhukhan referred to was probably that by Jas’want Siqgh. 
The matter being doubtful, I place Par’tap provisionally here. 
150. the poet Sripati, of Par’yag’pur, 
district Bahiraich . B. 16!±3 A.D. 
1 This word Sahi or Shahi is the same as Shah, but is an older form, pre¬ 
serving in its final i a trace of the ending ya in the Zend hshdyathiya, which 
has disappeared in the modern Persian Shah. See Zoroastrian Deities on Indo- 
Scythic Coins, by A. Stein, reprinted from The Oriental and Babylonian Decord, 
August 1887, p. 9. 
