Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s5.10

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Many works were also produced on the science of grammar, lexicography and poetics. Ramchandra (A. D. 1400) wrote his *Prakriyā-kaumudi* in which he has rearranged the material of Pānini. At Ahmadabad, in 1458, was written *Nyāyāratha-manjūsha*, a commentary on Hēmchandra's grammar. Punjarāja, a minister of Ghayāsuddīn Khaljī of Malwa (1469-1500) wrote the *Sisuprabodh* on Alankāra. In Bengal some of the best commentaries on Pānini were written by Nandan Misra, Pundarīk Vidyāsāgar and Srīman Misra. Lexicographers like Brahspati Rāyamukta, the famous commentator on the *Amarkosh* flourished during the fourteenth century and Appāraya in the fifteenth. Gangānanda, a court poet of Mahārājā Karna of Bikaner (1506-27) wrote the *Kāvyadakini* which deals with poetical blemishes (*doshas*). He also wrote *Karnābhūshana*, a treatise on peotical *rasas*. Works on music were a special feature of this period, and these were written both in the north and the south. *Matanga Bhārata* was written by Lakshmana Bhāskar in the fourteenth century. Vidyāranaya of Vijāyanagar wrote *Sangītsāra* on music. Similarly there were works written on medicine, astronomy, astrology and polity.