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Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Gajapati Pratapa Rudra

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2694393Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets — Gajapati Pratapa RudraCavelly Venkata Ramaswamie

GAJAPATI PRATAPA RUDRA.

Was a celebrated sovereign of the Kalinga Country, who reigned in the fourteenth century of Salivahana, he introduced a thorough reformation in the administration of justice through-out his dominions, and established a regular code of laws, which text was entitled "Saraswati-Vilas." This Royal Author likewise composed a treatise on sexual intercourse.