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KAMSAVAHO
The colophon of the First canto stands thus : इअ उसाणिरुद्धे पढमो सग्गो ।
The concluding verse, at the close of the Fourth canto, reads thus:
gei gfæraryaqaferit fafuiffe331– जोण्हापण्हुअवेरिविकमतमो उभासिआसामु हो । आणं दण्णव पुण्णमाहरो सव्वाण निव्वाणदो Bat Raguizon feug at Medaûdeäsrá ||
Even these stray extracts are enough to show how the author is indebted to Rajasekhara : the first verse reminds us of the Nandi of Karpūramañjarī and the sixth closely agrees with K.-mañjarī I. 8.
4. KAMSAVAH025: A CRITICAL STUDY
i) EARLIER ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE WORK.
In the Catalogus Catalogorum (Parts I-III, Leipzig 18911903) of Theodor AUFRECHT we have an entry about Kamsvadha which is described as a Präkṛta-kavya (p. 77). AUFRECHT gives reference to OPPERT 5918 which stands for 'Lists of Sanskrit Mss. in Private Libraries of Southern India' by Gustav Oppert, Vol. I, Madras 1880-4 and Vol. II, Madras 1885-8. Though noted by AUFRECHT, somehow this work has not attracted the attention of Prakrit scholars. That was quite natural in view of the meagre information given by AUFRECHT.
25 I wished I read the name as Kamsavaham; but out of regard for my predecessors, GOLDSCHMIDT and PANDIT, and to maintain uniformity with Ravanavaho and Gaüḍavaho I have regularly written Kamsavaho.
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