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in their theories of Rasa. This naturally raises the questiou wicther S. was familiar with R. G. or not. That both, he and Jagannitha were contemporaries at the court of Jahāngir, if not those of Akbar and Shahjahan-becomes probablo from a comparison of their dates. S. lived from circa 1587 to circa 1666 A. 1), and must huyc frequented the courts of Akbar and Jahangir between 159 and 1627 (Juhangir died 7, Nov. 1627), Jagannātha la placed between circa 1590 to 1665 A. D. und enjoyed the patronage of Jaliāngir, SLūbjuliān and Dārii Slukoh between 1620 and 1050 A. D.'. It is likely that they might have been in some contuct. But it is not possible to say whether S. was familiar with R, G. The earliest Ms. of K. P, K. that is known was finished in 1647 A, D. while about R. G. we can only say that it might have been written bofore 1652 A, D,' From the frequent references to Navīvas in both the works it seems that a new school of poetic criticism hud come to be recognized as in Nyāya and so both S, and J. must have drawn upon the cominon ideas of Nuvinas,
1 Jagoonātha Panlita. p. 25. 3 Ibid., pp. 25-26.
on matka Faolita. p. 25.
