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Srenika ( Bimbisara), Magadha 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 वाहिए। ववेविसईसण णाण संजमे, महीरुहे चारु विवेय संजमे ।। नएवि विद्धिं सुहसील वारिणा, दुरंत जम्मा सुह तावहारिणा । पसिद्धि पूया कुसुमोह सोहए, गुणोह संभूय फलोह रोहए ॥
[ बंसस्थ नाम छंदः ] माणसेइणं धरेवि, तिप्प दक्खिणं करेवि । जिणस्स मंदिरे जिणिंदु, वंदिऊण लोय वंदु ॥ मण्णिवट्टि याणुराउ, निग्गउ तउ पुराउ ॥ दारुणं वणं पइछ, तित्थु जक्ख रूक्खु दिट्ठ ॥१॥
[ समानिका नाम छंदः] तहचेय साहु । सीलंबु वाहु ॥ सुहसाह पाहे । आराहणाहे ॥ कारणु लहेवि । संघहो कहेवि ॥ अणुसरमिपुज्जु । हडं अप्पकज्जु ॥
। दुहडउ नाम छंदः] The following versc is repcated in full or indicatori hy it part at the end of each chapter :
विविह रस विसाले । णेय कोऊ हलाले । ललिय वयण माले । अस्थसंदोह साले ॥ भुवण विदिद नामे । सव्व दोसो वसामे । इह खलु कहकोसे । सुंदरे दिण्णतोसे ॥
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The name of the author Srichandra occurs in the colophon of each Sandhi.
In the prasasti (ct. extract) the author tells us that he wrote about the time of king Mälarāja of Anhilawada. In the Chālukya dynasty of Anhilawāda, two Mälarājas 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 (of. Duff's chronology). Srichandra must have been a contemporary of one of these, very probably of the first,
