"A very influential work was the Assamese Ramayana by Madhava Kandali, a Brahmin also known as Kaviraja Kandali. It was composed in the fourteenth century at the behest of the Kachari king Shrimahamanikya. It was in five kandas and was an adaption and condensation of Valmiki’s work. It was completed in its present form of seven kandas by Shankaradeva, the great Assamese saint and poet, and his disciple Madhavadeva, who added the Bala and Uttara Kandas. Shankaradeva also wrote a play, the Rama Vijaya, on Rama's marriage and his humbling of Parashurama (Smith 1995: 27- Several other works were written in the following centuries like the Lava Kusara Yuddha, the Sitara Banabasa, the Katha Ramayana and the Nagaksa Yuddha (Smith 1995: 29-30)."