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kuincamam Kottimtemdam (p. 177.15-18).
Lastly, apart from the numerous quotations and valuanle sermons that are incorporated in the various stories, the author's instructing and edilying zcal, at times, has crystallised into religio-moral maxims in Kannada : 'Kolladude dharmam'. - Nonhurting itself is truc picty. (p. 11.26); “Arahamta parama devare devar’. The Arahamta, i.e., thc Jina himself is the true god (p. 127.23-24).
All these literary peculiarities and excllences of the Vaddaradhane clearly point to its author's many- sided personality that he was an adept story-teller or narrator, an emenent teacher a poet of no mean order and, above all, a master of language.
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