82 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 114 The Ramacharita cannot be accepted as a purely historical work. The personal idiosyncracies as well as affiliations of the poet should be borne in mind before analysing this text. Cf. R C Mazumdar (ed) op.cit., p 150. 118 For both these views, see Ibid., pp 151-52. "8 Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIX, p 5. 117 Ramacharita, II. 40. "8 Ibid., 39-40. 119 Ibid., 40. 120 N R Ray, op.cit., p 418.