92 the modern ltterary history of hindustXn. [§ 345 . 
345. f^TX.T^T <5 the poet-laureate Giri Dhar, of 
the Dodb . B. 1713. 
Rag. He was the famous author of verses on morals and occasional 
pieces in the Kundaliya metre. He is considered the greatest master 
of this metre. See Kellogg’s Hindi Grammar , Prosody , p. 25. 
Possibly the same as No. 483. 
346. 3RT*T Hf, the bard Karnn, of Par’na (Panna ), in Bundel’- 
hhand. B, 1737. 
He composed under the patronage of Rajas Sabha Siygh (cf. No. 
155) and Hir’dai Sahi, the Bundelas of Par’na [Panna), a commentary 
on the Sat Sai of Bihari (No. 196) entitled the Sahitya Chandriha. 
He was skilled at impromptu versification, and at completing unfinished 
verses given to him suddenly as a test of skill, and this gained him 
many gifts and honours. The date given is taken from Sib Siijgh, 
but I can find no trace of any king of Par’na called Sabha Si^gh. The 
Report of the Arch. Sur. Ind. xxi, 112 # mentions a Hir’dai Sahi of 
Panna who succeeded his father Chattr’ Sal in A.D. (? Sambat) 1718. 
Cf. No. 504. 
347. "R Sfffsr, the poet Anand Ghan, of Dilli, 
FI. 1720 ; D. 1739 A.D. 504. 
Rag., Sun. Sib Siggh states that his poems are as brilliant as the 
sun. He has never seen any complete work of his, but has as many 
as five hundred short pieces by him. According to the Sahitya 
Bhukhan of Mahadeo Par’sad he was a Kayasth by caste, and was 
Muhammad Shah’s (1719—1748) Munshi. Before his death he retired 
to B rind a ban, and was killed in the capture of Mathura, by Nadir 
Shah . His best known work is the Sujan Sagar. He is possibly the 
same as another Anand Kabi mentioned by Sib Siiggh as born in 1654 
A.D., and the author of a work on sexual intercourse entitled Koh Sar 
(Rag.), He sometimes signed himself Ghan Anand. 
348. Jugul Kishor Bhatt, of KcCithal, 
district Kar’ndl, in the Punjab. FI. 1740 A.D. 
He was a prominent figure among the attendants at the court of 
the emperor Muhammad Shah (1719—1748). In Sambat 1803 (A.D. 
