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Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kangakubja, Sfc. [No. 1, 
in dramatic representation. Any one particular of these is a source 
for the attainment of whatsoever aspiration. What, then, can he 
said, when, owing to my affluent good fortune, this entire category 
of excellencies is 'presented in combination ?” # For Vatsaraja we 
have, in the Ndgdnanda , Siddhardja, a descriptive epithet of the hero 
of the play, Jimutavahana. 
Now, both the Ratnavali and the Ndgdnanda are dedicated to 
Harsha : for so we are to understand their being attributed to him, 
as if he were author of them ; a custom by no means unprecedented 
in the annals of Indian literature. The writer of the Ratnavali was 
a Hindu; that of the Ndgdnanda ,f a Bauddha. The latter may 
but not a man. See the preface to the Vasavaclatta , p. 4, foot-note; and the 
Haima-kos'a , IV., 41. 
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See the printed Ratnavali , p. 2. My text, for which I have collated several 
manuscripts, punctually agrees with it, as concerns this extract. The manager is 
here conciliating the favour of the audience on behalf of the troop of players, 
himself, &c. 
Professor Wilson says, respecting his English recension—as it really is—of the 
Ratnavali , that it may “ serve to convey some idea, how far the translator may 
be suspected of widely deviating from his text in the preceding dramas;” where 
verse is rendered in verse. The passage just given is professedly reproduced, by 
him, in this strange manner : “ Shi Harsha is an eminent poet ; the audience are 
judges of merit ; the story of Vatsa is current in the world; and we, the actors, 
are experienced in the histrionic art; and 1 hope, therefore, that, with so pre¬ 
cious a poem, and such means of doing it justice, the opportunity afforded me of 
appearing before so distinguished an assembly will yield me the fruit of all my 
desires.” Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, second edition, Vol. II., 
pp. 261 and 265. 
t It is somewhat singular, that this play should have escaped the questing of 
Professor Wilson ; as it is not very extraordinarily rare, and as it is more than 
once referred to, and extracted from, in the Das'arupdvalolca. I have, among 
my private manuscripts, two copies of it, a complete one, and one broken. It is 
in five acts, and is of no great length. Its fable is the story of Jimutavahana, 
now rendered familiar by the publication of the first volume of the Katha-sarit- 
sagara. 
Of its two benedictory stanzas the first is subjoined : 
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“ c With eyes unclosed for a moment, on what female art thou ruminating, 
under pretext of piou3 contemplation ? Behold these persons, ourselves, vexed 
