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speaker in the assembly of erudites ! तथा चाहुः श्रीसिद्धसेनदिवाकरपादाः ।
स्वेदं समुद्वहति जम्भरणातनोति निद्रायते किमपि जल्पति बस्तुशून्यम् । माशा विलोकयति खं पुनरेव धात्रीं भूताभिभूत इव दुर्वदकः सभायाम् ।।
Since this verse does not figure inside his known dvātrimśikās, it may have belong to a dvātrinsik à treating the theme of sabha and sabhäsada.
This verse has been quoted by Jinaprabha sūri of Kharatara-gaccha in his Katantra-Vibhrama-tikä (S. 1352/A.D. 1296), as of Siddhasena Divakara. The style, tone, proclivity, cadence and cunning doubtless are of Siddhasena Diväkara. A diligent search inside the Jaina literature, particularly inside the âgamic cūrnis. vrttis, tikās, and of course kathānakas, caritas, Prabandhas as well as subhāsita-anthologies and works on poetics is likely to reward with the discovery of some more such stanzas. For Siddhasena's compositions glitter like jewel in any corner they lie hidden or undetected. They cannot be missed, nor can they be mistaken as anybody else's, by a perceptive eye.
1. Comp. Muni Shri Punyavijayji, Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts Jesalmer Collection,
L.D. Series,36, Ahmedabad, 1972, p. 207
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