A History of Sanskrit Literature c22.s2.23

c22.s2.23

Of Brahmanical Campūs one, the *Rāmāyaṇacampū*,² is ascribed to Bhoja and Lakṣmaṇa Bhaṭṭa; there is a *Bhāratacampū*³ by Ananta, in twelve Stabakas, of uncertain date. More definitely dated is the *Udayasundarīkathā*⁴ of Soḍḍhala, a Vālabha Kāyastha of Lāṭa, who wrote *c.* A.D. 1000 under the patronage of king Mummuṇirāja of the Konkan. The model of the writer was the *Harṣacarita* of Bāṇa, and in imitation of him he gives not merely facts regarding his own lineage, but also some twenty-five stanzas on earlier poets. Of Bāṇa he says: