Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

and lucid way the difficult puns upon words and other poetical intricacies indulged in by the writers of the Mahākāvyas great epic poems. It makes the average reader's path smooth and clear to go through the text and understand its niceties, and is in a way superior to the commentaries written by Mallinātha and others which are composed in long and complex sentences intermingled here and there with long quotations from Panini's grammar, Smritis traditional law texts, treatises on music and various lexicons.

It should not be taken to mean that the way in which Mallinātha and other commentators have done their work is in any way defective. It is like a long march without posts and stages to gain the object in view and necessarily gives rise to a feeling of exhaustion in the mind of a reader; while the way adopted by our commentators has clear-cut sign-posts and easy halting places to lead him to the destination with a feeling of renewed strength and freshness. The undiminished interest and zeal with which the commentaries of Vallabha are studied here as well as in other parts of India, is a tangible proof of his recognition of merit by the