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KAVIKAUSTUBHA
Deccani Brahmin his residence must have been somewhere in the Deccan. This suggestion gets confirmation from the identification of siqaaft with Chaul as we find it in the following verse in the S'ivabhārata or Kavındra Paramānanda composed for Shivaji before A. D. 1674.
Chap. XXVIII, 59—Here the Mogul General Shaista Khān orders another Muslim Sardar to conquer igraeft:
" Terra pre turge tagreit atent'l
Qurant gaiarreari ar TATAATT II 48 \"?
Apart from the usage of the name ciraat for Chaul as found in a poem of the latter part of the 17th Century, when Raghunātha Manohar lived at this place we may note here the fact that Chaul or Revdandā (in the Alibagh Sub-division of the Kolābā District of the Bombay Presidency) is a place of great antiquity. “Under the names of rare and tada local Hindu traditions trace it to the times when Krishna reigned in Gujarat."
We may now sum up the facts so far brought forth regarding the life-history and literary activity of matu as follows: (1) Raghunātha Manohara composed the following
works:(1) Salaore on Medicine composed in a. D. 1697. (2) getratates a work on prosody mentioned and
quoted in the afable--No Ms. discovered so far.
1. fantasie ferage = 4410; aftagi = first; quran anda; ATTENTE ** atrico.
Shaista Khān gave the above order during his Camp at Poona (guage feat TEE:)
2. Vide p. 376 Imperial Gazetteer Vol. III (1885). From the History of Charl recorded here we learn that Chaul was known to Ptolemy ( A.D. 150 ) to the author of the Periplus of the Erethrean Sea ( A.D. 247) and to Hwen Thsang ( A.D. 642), The Arab travellers of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries also refer to it. The subsequent travellers to refer to Chaul are :-(1) Nikitin ( A.D. 1470 ), Fean Hugues ( A.D. 1583 ). In 1505 A.D. the Portuguese first appoared at Chaul.
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