A History of Sanskrit Literature c13.39

c13.39

The result thus achieved is, of course, ultimately nothing more than the systematic development of the love of paronomasias which is seen to such perfection in Subandhu and Bāṇa. We find a similar result achieved in the curious *Rasikarañjana*¹ of Rāmacandra, son of Lakṣmaṇa Bhaṭṭa who wrote in 1542 at Ayodhyā, for the verses of that work, read one way, give an erotic poem, in another, a eulogy of asceticism. L. H. Gray² has noted a western parallel in the elegy of Leon of Medina on his teacher Moses Bassola, which can be read either as. Italian or as Hebrew.³