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[-77 Commentators on Sarasvata-prakriya Ramabhatta. This author's com. is a curiosity not so much for its subject matter as for the manner of its com- pilation. The com. is called Vidvatprabodhini or Rām- bhatti after the author. At the end of each section of the com. the author gives in one to five stanzas details about himself, his family, his travels, and his literary works, from which we learn i. that the author was an Andhra coming from the Telangana country, or more definitely, from the regions around the Urañgala hills, where ruled in his days a king called Prataparudra, in whose court was the great pandit called Uddana OI Udayana; ii. that the author's father was one Narasimha and his mother a very pious lady called Kama. Having led a very happy life in his native place and written various literary works-among others, commentaries on the three Kavyas of the great Kalidasa-the author in the company of his wife, two sons called Lakshmidhara and Janārdana, and daughters-in-law starts, at the advanced age of seventy-seven, on a pilgrimage to holy places. During the halts of the journey such leisure moments as the author could command were employed in writing the present commentary. The main interest of the work lies in the record which is kept of the holy places visited on the way. At the conclusion of every section, the inci- dents of the pilgrimage are versified and written down as a sort of a prasasti, together with a stanza or two in praise of the filial affection and dutifulness of the two sons. Although the diary is not as accurate and detailed as we would wish and the incidents of the journey by no means unusual yet the picture it gives of the real social life some three hundred years ago is by no means void of charm. It is to be regretted that none of the mss. acces- sible are complete. IOI In addition to these names there could be mentioned a few others-such as Ratnakara, Nārāyaṇabhārati,