The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c15.s5.38

c15.s5.38

None the less Nārāyaṇa has the merit, shared by Viçākha-datta, of fire and energy; much of the fierce dialogue is brutal and violent, but it lives with a reality and warmth which is lacking in the tedious contests in boasting, which burden all the descriptions in the Rāma dramas of the meeting of Rāma and Paraçurāma. Duryodhana is not behind Bhīma himself in insolence, though perhaps more subtle than that of the violent son of the Wind-god :¹