A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.206

v3.c35.s8.206

In the 17th century Rāmabhadra-Dīkṣita composed his different hymns in the highest kāvya-style, in which he has praised the arrows of Rāma, Rāmacāpastava., Rāmabāṇastava and Aṣṭaprāsa or Rāmāṣṭaprāsa; further in one Varṇamālāstotra, written in 51 stanzas in a very simple language with their first letters arranged alphabetically Rāma has been praised¹. In the same century Jagannātha flourished as a lyric writer. He sang in praise of Lakṣmī in the Lakṣmīlaharī² and Gaṅgā in the Gaṅgālaharī³ and composed in 30 literary stanzas a hymn to the sun, the Sudhālaharī⁴. Rāmabhadra's teacher Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita wrote a philosophical work Ānandasāgarastava in a simple dignified language in praise of the Devī⁵.