A History of Sanskrit Literature c13.7

c13.7

‘None the less the face of the village maiden, when her lower lip blossoms in an unfeigned loud laughter, is worth a whole kingdom.’ If we trust such evidence as there is regarding the date of Pravarasena,¹ successor of Mātṛgupta on the throne of Kashmir, we may set Meṇṭha towards the latter part of the sixth century, and make him a contemporary of the author of the *Setubandha*.