History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c14.52

c14.52

Bühler further informs us that the *Bhāvabodhini* of Madhusūdana (17th century A. D.) contains the following passage: “Two eastern poets, called Bāṇa and Mayūra, lived at the court of Mahārāja Śrī-Harṣa, the chief of poets, the composer of the *nāṭikā* called the *Ratnāvalī* who was lord of Malwa, and whose capital was Ujjain.”[1] Madhusūdana’s account “learnt from the mouth of illustrious ancients” and written down a thousand years after Harṣa’s time, is no doubt a mere literary anecdote, wrongly associating Harṣa with Malwa and Ujjain, but the contemporaneity and literary gifts of Bāṇa, Mayūra, and Harṣa certainly seem to be the substratum of truth in this erroneous statement.