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Ganapati, Vişnu, Liksmi, etc and to mythological events from the epics. The references to Vindhya, Sahya and Goda indicate the locality of the composition of the majority of these gathas, namely, the Deccan or more particularly, Mabājāstra.
(2) Ravanavijaya (aow lost) : Although this kavya is ranked by Bhoja and after him, by Hemacandra, along with Harivijaya and Setubandha, nothing is knowo about its author or its contents beyond a solitary citation by Bhoja which is repeated from his work Srngäraprakāśa by Hemacandra in bis Kavyānusāsana.
(3) Sarvasena's Harivijaya (c-first balf of the fourth century A. D.; now lost): We are a little more fortunate to have about forty citations, a few of them are repetitions, which we can definitely ascribe to Harivijaya on the strength of their contents and or on the basis of clear reference by Anandavardhana and Bhoja.
There are many more verses in Srngäraprakasa which are in Maharastri and are composed in Skandhaka metre. As they are not found in Setubandha they are probably drawn from Harivijaya, especially in view of their simi- .. farity of ideas, phrases, diction, stylo and metro.
(4) Pravarasena's Setubandha?, also known as Ravaṇavaho, (c. first half of the Sih century A.D.) : This work is completely available with Sanskrit commentaries Setutattva-Candrika (Anonymous, od, Basak, Calcutta, 1959) and Rumasetupradipa (of Rāmadása, NS edn, Bombay 1935). There are eight more commentaries which are unpublished. Some of them aro incompleto and fragmentary. The Setubandha deals with a portion of the story of Rama from the return of Hanumat from Lanka with tidings of Sita to the death of Ravaņa, with special emphasis on the construction of the great causeway between the mainland and the island. It follows the story of Ráma as related in the Ramayana with only a few minor variations. The designations of the different cantos of the Setubandha listed below from the commentary of Ramadāsa give a sufficient idea of its contents :
Rama-prasthānam (Rāma's March) 2 Samudrotkarşah (The Glory of the Ocean) 3 Sugriva praudnih (Sugriva's war-like speech and proudly boasting of his own powers) 4 Ramaşad gunyam (Råma's application of the six political expedients-Consecrating Vibhișaņa as the future ruler of Lanka) 5 Samudra-quathah (The boiling distress of the Ocean) 6 Parvatoddharah (The uprooting of mountains) 7 Seturudyogaḥ (Active preparation for building the causeway) 8 Setu-nispatrih (The successful building of the causeway) , Suvelotkarşaḥ (The Glory of the Suvela mountain) 10 Kamint-kelih (The gaieties of love of the young women of Lanka) 11 Mayottamangam (The exhibition of a severed head of Rama by magic-and the lamentation of
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