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of Dhanapala's TM would be sufficiently baffling and fright-
fully discouraging by its very first sentence beginning wi-
th the word 'Asti' and extending over full four pages after
which one would come across the substantive 'Ayodhy膩' ena-
bling him to know that all the while one was reading abo-
ut the city of Ayodhya ! As if this much length was not
enough, the poet goes on adding a few more, though not equa-
lly too long, sentences to add to one's bewilderment. Even
if one braves the hardships so far encountered, the poet
would
would not show any mercy,an and/start again in the same
tenor of long-drawn highly involved description of King Me-
ghav膩hana: And, by this time, the poet has consumed full
sixteen pages before we know anything really important about
him except his name !!
Weber, it seems, was confounded by this and other as--
pects of B膩峁嘺's ornateness when he expressed his repugnance
at "an outrageous overloading of single words with epithet"
and complained that the "narrative proceeds in a strain of
bombastic nonsense amidst which, it, if not it then the pa-
tience of the reader, threatens to perish altogether" and
criticized B膩峁嘺's prose as "an Indian wood, where all pro-
gress is rendered impossible by the undergrowth until the
traveller cuts out a path for himself, and where, even then
he has to reckon with malicious wild beasts in the shape of
404.
unknown words that affright him" *Both Macdonell and Keith
404. Weber quoted by Peterson in his Introduction, p.37, to
his edn. of Kad.