 […] In a thesis dealing with Sanskrit "mahākāvya"s written in a single decade, 1961–1970, the researcher [Dr. Ramji Upadhyaya] has noted 52 Sanskrit "mahākāvya"s (epic poems) produced in that very decade.Some modern "mahākāvya"s do not aim to satisfy all the traditional criteria, and take as their subject historical matter (such as Rewa Prasad Dwivedi's "Svatantrya Sambhavam" on the Indian independence movement, or K.N.Ezhuthachan's "Keralodayah" on the history of Kerala), or biographies of historical characters (such as S.B.