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like deer, the hunter got an opportunity and took away the pearls from the den. The veiled reference is to Rāvana's. abduction of Sitā, when Rāma had gone in search of the
golden deer. 7. The references are to Anundoram Barooah's edition (1969
reprint). 8. H. D. Velankar, Svayambhūcchandas, 1962. 9. This term Dhruvā is somewhat different from the Dhruvā
of the drama. In the Apabhramsa epic the verse which occurred in the very beginning of a Canto (Saṁdhi), and which also occurred usually in the same metre at the end of every section (Kadavaka) of that Canto was called Dhruvā, Dhruvaka
or Ghattā. 10. The form and function of the Dhruvā in later dramatic
practice (e.g. in Anargharāghava, Devicandragupta, the dramas of Rājasekhara, the account in Kuttanimata) require a separate treatment.
