हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

7 work. Part of this will bear reproduction here in an English dress:— "Hail, Krishna Gachha, who gladdened the whole earth, the beauty of whose person was like that of a blooming bunch of the Navajâti flower, and whose praises were celebrated by crowds of learned men, who might well be compared to so many black humming bees,—he whose feet were ever borne on the crowns of the followers of the Jain religion! "In the circle of the Suris, whose actions are the homes of wonders, in time, Jayasiṁha Sûri was born, who was the crowning ornament of the wise, who easily vanquished in dispu- tation S'âranga, who was the leading poet among those who were able to write poetical compositions in six languages, and who was honest among the most honest, who wrote three works— (1) Nyâya Suratikâ, (2) A New Grammar, (3) A Poem on Kumâra Nripati,—and who hence became known as the chief of those who knew the three sciences of logic, grammar, and poesy. "To the lotus like Gâdi of Jayasiṁha Nayachandra is like the life giving sun, who is the essence of the knowledge of the sciences, who is the exciting moon to the sea of the races of the poets. This poet his spirits raised to the height of the subject by a revelation imparted to him in a dream by the king Hammîra himself, has composed this poem,¹ which is gratify- ing to the assembly of the kings and in which the heroic (rasa) is developed. "The author in lineal descent is the grandson of Jayasiṁha Sûri, the great poet, but in that of poesy his son. "Let not good readers take into much account the faults of expression that I may have fallen into. How can I, who am of ¹ Our poet also says that he was incited to the composition of this poem by a rash assertion which some courtiers of king Tomara Vîrama had the presumption to make in the presence of our poet that there existed no one now who could compose a poem that would come up to the excellence of the works of old Sanskrit poets. King Tomara Vîrama whoever he was appears to have lived seventy years before Akbar.