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INTRODUCTION
After Kalidasa's Meghasandesa, the composition
of the Sandeśakāvya came by and by to bo regarded as one
of the essential prerequisites to one's being recognised as
a great poet (mahākavi). There followed, therefore, a
host of sandesakāvyas, not all of them of great literary
merit. Kerala too was no exception to this general fea-
ture of the literary history of medeaval India and a good
number of sandeśakāvyas were composed by Kerala authors
in both Sanskrit and Malayalam Perhaps the earliest
and most popular sandesa by an author from Kerala is the
Sukasandesa of Lakṣmīdāsa (13th to 14th century)..
Among the other sandesakāvyas of Ferala, the Bhṛnga-
sandeśa of Vasudeva (late 16th century), the Cakorasan-
desa³ of Vasudeva Bhattatiri of Payyur (15th century),
the Hamsasandeśa of Pūrṇasarasvati (14th cent.), the
Kokilasandeśa of Uddaṇḍa Sastri (early 15th cent.)
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2
5
1. Published for the first time by H. H. Ramavarma of Travan
core. JRAS (1884). An edition along with two commenta-
ries, is forthcoming in the present Series.
2. T. S. S. No. 128.
4. T, S. S. No. 129,
3. R 3607 (Madras).
5. Mangalodayam Press, Trichur.
After Kalidasa's Meghasandesa, the composition
of the Sandeśakāvya came by and by to bo regarded as one
of the essential prerequisites to one's being recognised as
a great poet (mahākavi). There followed, therefore, a
host of sandesakāvyas, not all of them of great literary
merit. Kerala too was no exception to this general fea-
ture of the literary history of medeaval India and a good
number of sandeśakāvyas were composed by Kerala authors
in both Sanskrit and Malayalam Perhaps the earliest
and most popular sandesa by an author from Kerala is the
Sukasandesa of Lakṣmīdāsa (13th to 14th century)..
Among the other sandesakāvyas of Ferala, the Bhṛnga-
sandeśa of Vasudeva (late 16th century), the Cakorasan-
desa³ of Vasudeva Bhattatiri of Payyur (15th century),
the Hamsasandeśa of Pūrṇasarasvati (14th cent.), the
Kokilasandeśa of Uddaṇḍa Sastri (early 15th cent.)
3
2
5
1. Published for the first time by H. H. Ramavarma of Travan
core. JRAS (1884). An edition along with two commenta-
ries, is forthcoming in the present Series.
2. T. S. S. No. 128.
4. T, S. S. No. 129,
3. R 3607 (Madras).
5. Mangalodayam Press, Trichur.