A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.202

v3.c35.s8.202

The Nārāyaṇīya of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa⁵, completed in the year 1590 A.D. is a stotra and fairly extensive kāvya at the same time. The poem contains the entire subject-matter of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa and consists of ten decades (daśakas⁶). In Kerala it has the value of a prayer-book like the Bhāgavata, and pious people read a section from it everyday. The legend goes that the poet was a Brāhmaṇa of Kerala, suffering from rheumatism and was cured of this disease with the help of his prayers to Kṛṣṇa. At the completion of recitation of each of its decades he was healed of one-tenth of his malady⁷.