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Compare also his Hemachandra, p. 44). The copy in the Government collection is probably a copy of that in the Sanghavînopâdo bhandar at Pâtan; but I am able from inspection of the latter to correct the title, which Bühler's Shastri gave incorrectly as Raghuvilapanâţaka. In the prologue Ramachandra boasts, according to the manner of Indian dramatists, of being the author of four other works, a Dravyalankára, Raghavâbliyadaya, Yâdavâbhyudaya and a Nalavilâsa. That Ramachandra was one-eyed appears to be a historical fact. Two legends are current with regard to the circumstance. According to the one, Ramachandra was one day taken before the sage Jayasinha, who bade him "have a single eye" to the furthering of the Jain faith. On this Ramachandra lost one of his bodily eyes! According to the other legend, the loss was a punishment for criticism passed by Ramachandra, in spite of the warning of his teacher, on a poem of Srípåla's. There appears to me to be an interesting reference to his semi-blindness in the opening verse of the Raghuvilasa. It will remind the English student of the line:
"So much the rather Thou Celestial Light" by a greater poet. The verse runs--
Satâm yah kevalâm dạishtim hřitâm atyugrakarmaņa
Tirtva mohabdhim anaishid Vîrâgasmai namo namah. “All glory to that Vira who, when their sins had removed the eye of faith of the good, crossed the ocean of illusion and brought it back."
The fourth of these books is a copy of a Yogasara by an author whose name is not given. The manuscript is dated. It was written by the scribe Vâmakirti for Amalakîrti, the pupil of Jayakîrti, in Samvat 1192, A, D. 1136.