or less approach the ideal Rama and Seetha, Yudhistira and Droupadi. Deification is a personification of all virtues minus all vices; and the vicissitudes of human life in their case are beyond conception and border on the ludicrous. If on the other hand human beings are , invested with a character which approaches the heroes and heroines of the great, epics, the effect is very great and the nearer such approach, the greater will be our admiration. The deified heroes should be our rules of Grammer and ordinary human beings with an elevated conduct should be the examples. In this view I tried my best to conceive certain persons who lived at aj time much nearer to ours. From a central grain of an incident which is reported to have been actual, the story is expandedl and great attention is paid to the development of characters in different stagesį What appear to be digressions are not loose events which mar the unity, but are mere collateral incidents of the main plot.
