[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v1.c16.349 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.349 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.349 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c16.349](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.349) (4) \*The Rāmacarita of Sandhyākara Nandī (Nandi-kula-kumuda-kānana-purṇendu).\*—This \*Kāvya\* is divided into four cantos and is "written throughout in double \*en tendre\*. It is written in imitation of the \*Rāghavapāṇḍavīya\*. Read one way it gives the story of the \*Rāmāyaṇa\*. Read another way it gives the history of Rāmapāladeva of the Pāla dynasty of Bengal." The work is called \*Kaliyuga-Rāmāyaṇa\* and the author \*Kalikāla-Vālmīki\*. But the text is so difficult that it is more or less unintelligible except canto 1 and 36 verses of canto 2, for which we have a commentary. The author's ancestral home was at Vṛhadvatu which was attached to Pauṇḍravardhanapura in Varendrī, and his father Prajāpati Nandī who is described as \*Karaṇyānām-agraṇī\* was the \*Sāndhivigrahika\* of Rāmapāla. The work was completed probably in the reign of Madanapāla, as he ends his work with a wish for the long reign of that prince (IV. 48).¹ - [Previous: v1.c16.348](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.348) - [Next: v1.c16.350](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.350) - [Up: v1.c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16) ## Cites (1) - [Rāmacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.rama.prasiddha.ramacarita) — Gauḍa Abhinanda, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.349](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.349) · Pramāṇa