from the historical accuracy of the work. As the distance between the Vijayanagara capital and Mulvay (N. Arcot) is likely to be only about 150 miles, it is not impossible that the army intent on a sudden manoeuvre which was calculated to take Sumbuvaraya by surprise could have, by forced marches at the rate of 30 miles a day, covered the distance in five or six days, and that there may not have been any necessity for the kavya to exaggerate its hero's achieve- ruent at the cost of historical veracity. Some Pandits are loath to admit that such a fine com- position as the Kamparayacharita could have been the produc- tion of a woman, and they would have us believe that it may have been the work of a court-poet, which had been mothered on the queen Gangadevi. This scepticism on the part of Pandits which implies an unwarranted denial of postic genius in women may well be convincingly answered by what has already been said above, that Sanskrit Literature can boast of quite a fair percentage of women as distinguished votaries of the poetic muse. That this work was popular among the literati is evident from the fact that it appears to have served as a model for the Raghavendravijaya, a kavya composed by Narayana Kavi in honor of the Madhvacharya, Raghavendra Svamin, the ponti- fical head of the Sumatindra-math in the 17th century A. D. ; for the tell-tale similarity in several ideas and expressions in both the poems could not have been the result of mere chance. A few parallels are cited below for purposes of comparison : Madhuravijaya, चेतसोऽस्तु प्रसादाय सतां प्राचेतसो मुनिः । पृथिव्यां पद्यनिर्माण- विद्यायाः प्रथमं पदम् || ( I-5) Raghavendravijaya. सुधीन्द्रयोगिनं वन्दे साधुसत्कृतसम्पदम् । सगद्यपद्यनिर्माण. विधायाः प्रथमं पदम् ॥ ( I- 10 )
