A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s4.38

v1.c5.s4.38

Another Deshasth Brahman writer of the seventeenth century was Vāman Pandit, who was a Sanskrit scholar of repute, and in his early days wrote only in that language. Following the example of the pedants of that age he disdained the vernacular tongue of Mahārāshtra. But a change gradually came over him, and his later works which are numerous and include every variety of poetic composition were all written in Marāthī. His major works are the Yatārtha Dīpika—a commentary on the Bhagavad Gīta, the Bhīshma Pratidnya, Sīta Svayamvār, Kālīya Mardan, Bhāma Vilās, Rasa Krīda and Bhārat Bava, in most of which he displayed that ingenuity and felicity of rhyme which led to his being styled ‘Vāman Yamakya,’ i.e. ‘Vāman the Rhymer.’ He died in 1773.