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No. 57. GANGĀPRASĀDA wrote a book named Kalikāla-charitra. His time is unknown. He mentions Gostāmi Tulasidāsa in his description of Kali and must therefore have flourished after him.
No. 58. GANGĀPRASĀDA of Bhadā vara wrote Vigvabhojana-prakāsa or a book on cookery for Mahārājā Visvanātha Simha Ju Deva of Rewā, who ascended the Gaddi in 1854 A. D. The author was Vaidyarāja (physician) of Rewā Darbār. The book is mainly written in prose of the Braja dialect. In the beginning the author has shown that he possessed poetical genius and could compose verses in Hindi and Sanskrit.
No. 59. GANGĀPRASĀD VYĀSA, son of Pandit Ummeda Simba Misra, lived at Chittrakūta, where he wrote his commentary on Vinaya-patrikā by Tulasīdāsa in prose interspersed with verses. His father wrote some work on Lilā or sports of Sri Kộishṇa besides a Nakha-sikha. Ummeda Simha was born in 1796 and hencu his son's period may be fixed about 1850 A. D. Both father and son were devotees of Lord Kțishņa.
No. 60. GANGĀPRASĀDA VYASA UDAINIYĀ wrote Rāma-Anugraha or an abstract of the famous Yoga Vāśishtha, at the request of Rājā Vishnudāsa of Samathar in Samvat 1844 which is equal to 1787 A. D. and therefore he cannot be identical with the preceding poet having the same name and title. He has been once noticed (see no. 54 of S. R. 1906-1908). In the prosent aud previous maunscripts the year of composition is noted as 1844 in figures, which does not agree with the symbols in which it is reported as follows :
वेद उदधि वसु भू प्रमित संवत अगहन मास । कृष्ण एकादसि वार बुध ता दिन ग्रंथ प्रकास ।
