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Srenika ( Bimbisara), Magardha desa, Pataliputra and Rajagriha
are many.
illustrations of some interesting and new metres in Prakrit, occur in this work, for instance:
तहा मुणि कायकिलेस सोहिए, सरीर छेत्ते तवसीर बाहिए । ववेविसदंसण णाण संजमे, महीरुहे चारु विवेय संजमे ॥ नएवि विद्धिं सुहसील वारिणा, दुरंत जम्मा मुह तावहारिणा । सिद्धि पूया कुसुमोह सोहए, गुणोह संभूय फलोह रोहए ॥ [ बंसस्थ नाम छंदः ]
माणसेहणं घरेवि, तिप्प दक्खिणं करेवि । जिणस्स मंदिरे जिणिदु, वंदिऊण लोय बंदु || मणिट्ट याणुराउ, निम्गउ तउ पुराउ || दारुणं वणं पड्छु, तित्थु जक्ख रूक्खु दिछु || १ || [ समानिका नाम छंदः ]
तहचेय साहु । सीलंबु वाहु | सुहसाह णा । आराहणाहे || कार हे । संघो कवि ॥ अणुसरभिपुज्जु । हउं अप्पकजु ॥
[ दुहडउ नाम छंदः ]
The following verse is repeated in full or indicated by a part at the end of cach chapter:--
विविह रस विसाले । णेय कोऊ हलाले । ललिय वयण माले । अत्थसंदोह साले || भुवण विदिद नामे । सव्व दोसो वसामे । इह खलु कहकोसे । सुंदरे दिण्णतोसे ॥
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The name of the author Śrichandra colophon of each Sandhi.
occurs in the
In the praśasti (cf. extract) the author tells us that he wrote about the time of king Mularaja of Anhilawada. In the Chalukya dynasty of Anhilawada, two Malarajas are known to have reigned, the first from A.D. 941 to 996 and the second from A.D. 1176 to 1178, enjoying only a brief reign of two or three years (cf. Duff's chronology ). Srichandra must have been a contemporary of one of these, very probably of the first.
