A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s9.95

v3.c35.s9.95

The fourth part is entirely devoted to glorification of Kṛṣṇa-Viṣṇu. In IV, 40 the poet attests through a pun and not directly that the wretched, who do not get pleasure from the “songs of Jagannātha” - *jagannāthabhaṇiteḥ* - that can mean so much as the Bhagavadgītā, are already dead, although they may be alive..” [Jagannātha is credited also with the authorship of an ornate didactic poem Aśvadhāṭī-kāvya¹, so named on account of the fact that it is composed in verses written in the aśvadhāṭī metre].