It must take its subject matter from the epics (Ramayana or Mahabharata), or from history,
It must help further the four goals of man (purusharthas),
It must contain descriptions of cities, seas, mountains, moonrise and sunrise, and accounts of merrymaking in gardens, of bathing parties, drinking bouts, and love-making.
It should tell the sorrow of separated lovers and should describe a wedding and the birth of a son.
