A History of Sanskrit Literature c22.s2.31
A History of Sanskrit Literature c22.s2.31
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c22.s2.31
Late, but of special interest are the *Svāhāsudhākaracampū*⁵ of Nārāyaṇa written in the seventeenth century, which describes the loves of Agni's wife Svāhā and the Moon in an idyllic manner which has been compared by Pischel with Homer's picture¹ of the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, and the *Çaṅkaracetovilāsacampū*,² written by a poet Çaṅkara in honour of Cetasiṅha, whose name figures prominently in the transactions of Warren Hastings. Of these poems the former is admittedly a product of the art of extempore composition (*āçukavitā*), of which poets were inordinately and most foolishly proud.