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the same as the second Câlikā Paisāci verse cited by Hemacandra under Siddhahema VIII. iv. 326 (the first verse, known to be the Mangala verse of the lost Bịhatkathā and cited by Hemadandra under that Sūtra as also by Bhoja in the Srngāraprakāla is also found in GM as 1,3), and the latter is identical with the fourth verse in the Prastāvanā of the Abhijñānafakuntala. Lastly, V1.16 in the Aparavaktra metre is also taken from the Sakuntala. It appears there as the opening verse of the fifth act.
One more fact to be noted about GM is that some of the verses it exclusively shares with S and/or R are also found in Bhuvanapāla's text of the Gathākofas (the Chekokti-vicāra-lila), which also shares with GM a very large number of variants that are different from GM's readings.
These comparisons and facts show that, besides using S as its principal source, GM derived some material from S and T (which, together with Bhuvanapāla, had before them a text-tradition for some individual verses that was different from GM's), and for the rest it eclectically selected from a few other sources, not caring to restrict itself to the Gathā verses.
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