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exhausted his-quivers, shows that the. society so attacked ‘was not much different from the society which existed before the beginning of this generation. Whatever that might have been, it is certain that the social features of Sémal’s fictions are wonderfully in advance of his.times, and the genius that conceived. and constructed them is ‘the genius.of 4 great and free poet. It is this social hete- rodaxy and advance of Samal’s mind thatalsoexplains why he was single in his field and why he has not had any followers as Premanand had. But the works of Sdmal are Still preserved and read in manuscript and in lithograph; -and though his appreciation ia naturally not so great as that of Prema&nand’s works, a wide interest in his work exists none-the-less among the communities he had .addressed, and, in the interests of social reform, requires ‘to be made more intelligent and universal. No Gujarati poet is more fittedto educate the masses socially so well as Sémal is. He has been single and unassisted till now, buthis cause and mission is worthy of a following in these days, if the masses are to, be educated.

The hero of several of Sdmal’s poems is King Vikram, the founder of the Samvat Era. King Vikram, isa philanthropist of cosmopolitan sympathies in Samal’s -works and he is born to relieve humanity from misery. - He lives and moves like the knights of western romances, cand, like Aladin can force a genie ta assist him on