A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s5.3

v3.c35.s5.3

At the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th century A.D., under the patronage of Mahendrapāla and Mahīpāla of Kanauj, there lived the dramatist Rājaśekhara², who calls himself the teacher of Mahendrapāla and a contemporary of Kṛṣṇaśaṅkaravarman. Verses of Rājaśekhara are frequently quoted in anthologies of which a large number written on different poets is particularly important for history of literature, and these stanzas have perhaps been taken from a work on poetics ascribed to him³.