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apparently a Sākta. He invokes Devi and eulogizes flesh, liquor and smoke and God Śiva. He is a fascetious but forceful writer and had equal command on pure Hindi and Urdū languages. He chose to write the eulogy of Siva in Urdū as if to tell the Musalmāns what the powers of Śiva were, while the other three subjects he dealt with in puro Hindi, as if he intended to popularise them among the Pandit class, who must have abhorred them. There is a peculiar humour underlying his compositions. The poet was a resident of a village called Tikamān, which oannot be easily located without further particulars.
No. 12. BAKHTĀVARA, wrote under the patronage of Thākur Dayārāma of Hāthras (district Aligarh), whom he calls his Gurū. He wrote a book on monistic philosophy named Sunna (Śünya) Sāra which is misleading inasmuch as it gives the information that Sūnya-vāda of Buddhistic philosophy has been treated in it. His book was composed in the year 1803 A. D. (Sce no. 59 of 8. R. 1901.)
No, 13. BALAVÍRA, a Kshatriya of Tirhut, is a newly discovered poet, who wrote a book named Dargo-parva in the year 1551 A. D. It describes the battle of Mahābhārata. He is a poet of average capacity.
No. 14. BALADĀSA, is a newly discovered poet, who wrote a book on creation naming it Chintā-bodhana, after the Tulasi style. His time is unknown.
No. 15. BALADEVA, was a Khandelawāla Baniā. He composed his Vichitra Rāmāyaṇa in the year 1846 A, D. for pleasing his patron Mahārājā Balavanta Simha of Bharatapur. There was another Baladeva, the author of Kādambari and other works, who is sometimes confused with the present one. But he was a Brāhman and lived in what he called. Madhyadeba and flourished about 60 years earlier than the Khaņdela wālair
