A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.127

v3.c35.s2.127

A work on poetics of the type of Kāvyaprakāśa is Ekāvalī³ of Vidyādhara, a metrical work with the author’s own commentary. The examples are of the writer’s own composition and are at the same time panegyrics of Narasiṁha, king of Utkala and Kaliṅga. This enables us to determine to some extent the age of the work. But, the difficulty is that there have been eight kings of this name. In any case apparently the patron referred to by our author seems to have ruled between 1279-1314 A.D.