________________ Introduction (7) The seventh feature is the Apabhrans'a verses (Sts. 73, 76, etc.) which contain the solution of the riddle which the two princesses Surasundari and Mayanasundari were asked by their father King Prajapala to solve, and so on. In Kummaputta also two such Apabhrans'a verses are used which give the description of the birth festival of Kummaputta. But in this respect also, the verses used in the former appear to be of a superior quality than those used in the latter from a literary point of view because in the former the dialect is the pure Apabhrans'a dialect whereas in the latter though the stanzas appear to be written in A pabbhrans'a they resemble old Gujarati, as Diwanbabadura K. H. Dhruva also holds. (8) The eighth feature is the frequent use of grammatical forms like furthefoers which is explained in notes on St. 20 and the mastery of the author over various grammatical peculiarities. (9) The ninth feature is the use of certain pure Sanskrit words and phrases, which we term Sanskritism. Throughout the whole text it appears that the writer of this Prakrit book.
