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 interpreting the manners and customs of society, the elements that are likely to be imaginary should be care fully searched out and expunged.

For the verification of dharma injunctions, poems like Raghuvansha also are of very little use. When poets idealize their princes they are sure to describe the lives of these princes as closely in keeping with the rules of dharma and other sciences. But dramas like the Toy-