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information on the reigning king, is full of lofty and lengthy conventional praises liberally showered; such eulogistic stereotyped composition is the hall mark of the medieval period.
The bards in the courts of the Mandali-Thousand Gangas and the Sāntaļige Säntara kings, had evolved a typical but standard royal formulary. It seems that the court poets who composed or drafted the important epigraphs of the Sāntaras and the Mandali Gangas, the two contemporary royal dynasties of the adjacent divisions in the Shimoga district, are one and the same or influenced by each other. For that matter the literary quality and merit of poetic excellence of the charters of the Sāntaras is far superior [Nagarajaiah, Hampa: 1997-A].
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