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7. Let us now proceed to find out the striking pårallels in both DVM and PS in respect of the concluding verses as also in other places which will determine with certainty the date of Mk and prove both the works as coming from the same hand. Shri MahaPATRA has rightly pointed out the close resemblance in the language and mode of expression of the two verses describing the might and heroism of Gajapati Pratāparudradeva and Mukundadeva in DVM and PS. The relevant portions are given below:i) प्रोद्दामदोर्मण्डलीक्रीडाखण्डितशात्रवे वसुमतीमासागरं शासति ।
sitez - DVM, XX. 58. श्रीमद्वीरमुकुन्ददेवनृपतौ दोःस्तम्भकुम्भीनस
1519474HAUFF A ....... 5 sifa ali nitafa. PS, XXth Pāda, colophon.
To these may be added the following striking similarities. In XX. 57 of DVM the word vīra is prefixed to Srīpuruşottama like that in case of Mukundadeva in PS. In XX. 59 of DVM the word 'nava' is used as an adjective to his poem, so also we have the use of nava' nibandha in PS. Notice the striking similarities as underlined in the following verses :
यत्कान्तिपीयूषरसप्रवाहा निध्यायतां चेतसि संप्रविश्य । WITHETOONaat futen aradat At HR SAUTIH 11 PS, 2. यदर्थमत्यन्तपरिश्रमेण वाग्वादिनि त्वं गमिता प्रसादम् । TART A Yarzabieraat af HATTE I DVM, 1.2. * Paard are ata tag i PS, I.
In the mangalācarana of PS vägdevatā' is used as an epithet of Sarasvati. For more uses of this word in the same sense, the following verses of DVM are remarkable :
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