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xlviii Catura vijaya and Punyavijaya Vol. i] The चूर्णिs of जिनदासमहत्तर also contains many fables. All these fables have one sort of structure, viz. the concrete fable and the conclusion or JIHER where the concrete elements are shown as applicable to the true spirit.
Haribhadra's work also is important from another standpoint as it gives the faithful picture of the social life in Upper Gujarat, in the 8th century, in the First Birth e. g. the dance of women in the celebration of the birth-day festival ( 23. 5-14); the musicparties like Bhajana-mandalis of our times and the manifestation of caste-pride ( 39. 13 ff.) etc. The second Birth is replete with the description of social customs in those days with regard to marriage (69. 8-76. 10) and peculiarly enough it resembles to a certain extent even now the marriage-ceremony and the customary things attached thereto, among the various subcastes of Banias in Gujarat. The description of conducting a search in the house of the suspect for the stolen property; ( 83. 10-60. 10 ); also the description of the queen coming under the phychic influence of the goddess (83. 388. 9) The description of journeys and the
