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presumably from the point of view of Advaita Vedānta.
The Prayascitta Pradīpikā should have been intended
to explain the expiatory ceremonies relating to
Agnihotra. The Sankarşamuktavalt seems to have been
a commentary on the four chapters called Sankarṣakāṇḍa.
The Nyayacuḍamani is a commentary on Rucidatta's
work on Nyaya. The Raghavakrsnapandaviyam¹ should
have been similar to the Yadavaraghavapāṇḍaviya and
other works. Each of the stanzas should have been
capable of three interpretations applicable to Rāma,
Krsna and Dharmaputra. Ratnakheṭavijayam, a biogra-
phy of his father will shed much light, when discovered,
on the unknown works of Ratnakheta Dikşita as also on
the political history of South India between A.D. 1500
and 1600. The Bharatacampu dealing with the story
of the Mahabharata, the Vrttatārävali dealing with
prosody, the Tarāvali, the Kaṁsadhvaṁsana kāvya, the
Citramañjari and the Srigarasarvasva, a bhāṇa, the
Ramakathā, another kavya, the Sahityasamrajya and the
Alankaracuḍāmaṇi on literary criticism are not yet
recovered.
 
As was remarked at the outset, there was a galaxy
of poets and philosophers in South
India during the period between
A.D. 1500 and 1700. Most of them
were connected with each other either as relations or
students. The following table gives only those that
were immediately connected with Rājacūḍāmaṇi Dīkṣita :
 
Contemporaries
of Rajacudamani.
 
The name suggested above is only conjectural,