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presumably from the point of view of Advaita Vedānta.
The Prayascitta Pradipika 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 Nyayacudamani is a commentary on Rucidatta's
work on Nyaya. The Raghavakṛṣṇapāṇḍaviyam¹ should
have been similar to the Yadavaraghavapandaviya and
other works. Each of the stanzas should have been
capable of three interpretations applicable to Rāma,
Kṛṣṇa and Dharmaputra. Ratnakheṭavijayam, a biogra-
phy of his father will shed much light, when discovered,
on the unknown works of Ratnakheta Dīkşita 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 Vrttatarávali dealing with
prosody, the Taravali, the Kamsadhvamsana kavya, the
Citramañjari and the Srngarasarvasva, a bhāṇa, the
Rāmakathā, another kāvya, the Sahityasamrajya and the
Alankaracuḍāmani on literary criticism are not yet
recovered.
 
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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 Rajacūḍāmani Dīkṣita :
 
Contemporaries
of Rajacudamani.
 
1
 
The name suggested above is only conjectural,