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volumes. Till then each work will be made avail-
able to the public separately. Purvottaramimamsa
Vadanakshatramala and Sivakarnamrita have
already been issued and Varadarajastava is the
third.
Varadarajastava is a short and sweet poem
consisting of 105 stanzas in praise of God Varada-
raja at Conjeevaram. It has been commented.
upon by the author himself and hence we have
the advantage of understanding it in accordance
with the author's mind. That Dikshita himself
considered this to be one of the finest of his liter-
ary compositions is evidenced by the fact of his
referring to this in several of his works especially in
Kuvalayananda, a standard work on rhetorics-
Alankarasastra. The commentary clearly expounds
the various alankaras illustrated in the several
slokas and we leave it to the readers to appreciate
for themselves the marvellous beauty of the
piece. The following two slokas are found in the
manuscripts containing the text alone of this poem
while they are not found in the manuscripts con-
taining the commentary also
अक्ष्णोरसेचनमम्बुजलोचनैत-
द्रूपं निपीय तव तृप्तिमुपैतु कोऽन्यः ।
volumes. Till then each work will be made avail-
able to the public separately. Purvottaramimamsa
Vadanakshatramala and Sivakarnamrita have
already been issued and Varadarajastava is the
third.
Varadarajastava is a short and sweet poem
consisting of 105 stanzas in praise of God Varada-
raja at Conjeevaram. It has been commented.
upon by the author himself and hence we have
the advantage of understanding it in accordance
with the author's mind. That Dikshita himself
considered this to be one of the finest of his liter-
ary compositions is evidenced by the fact of his
referring to this in several of his works especially in
Kuvalayananda, a standard work on rhetorics-
Alankarasastra. The commentary clearly expounds
the various alankaras illustrated in the several
slokas and we leave it to the readers to appreciate
for themselves the marvellous beauty of the
piece. The following two slokas are found in the
manuscripts containing the text alone of this poem
while they are not found in the manuscripts con-
taining the commentary also
अक्ष्णोरसेचनमम्बुजलोचनैत-
द्रूपं निपीय तव तृप्तिमुपैतु कोऽन्यः ।