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Bhs. 170: वय येभ्यो जाताश्चिरपरिगता एव खलु ते सम यै सवृद्धा स्मृतिविषयता तेऽपि गमिता.। इदानीमेते स्म. प्रतिदिवसमासन्नपतना गतास्तुल्यावस्था सिकतिलनदीतीरतरुभि.॥
SRS. 13.19: वयं येभ्यो जाता मृतिमुपगतास्तेऽत्र सकलाः समं य. संवृद्धा ननु विरलता तेऽपि गमिता । इदानीमस्माक मरणपरिपाटी क्रमकृता न पश्यन्तोऽप्येवं विषयविरति यान्ति कृपणाः ।।
Other similarities noticed by J. Hertel, perhaps with the exception of verse SRS. 14.21 and Bhs. 46, are due to the existence of similar thoughts floating among the masses of oral tradition well represented in the whole gnomic and didactic Sanskrit literature.
12.4. Although Amitagati did not prove to be always an original author and a literary artist', he was an expert and master in composing his verses in perfect metres. In his 922 subhasita-s he used 22 different metres and only six imperfections in the metrics were noticed?, if we accept that Amitagati purposely composed each chapter, or part of a chapter in a specific metre. Amitagati in his SRS. used in almost each chapter another
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Cf. R. SCHMIDT's and J. HERTEL's edition, pp. 267-8. And only in the very difficult äryā verses, i e. 14.4 and 15 20, where instead of an āryā verse, a giti-âryâ, verse was used; this is generally accepted; the other imperfections are in chapter 8 where not all the verses were written in upajātz metre (indravajra and upendravapra), but verses 8, 12, 23 and 27 were written in pure indravajrå metre and 8.24 in pure upendravajra metre; the eleven syllabic upagāti metre can always be mixed with the cleven indravaprā or upendravajrâ metres.
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