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15. The fact that the central theme of the oldest works in the school of
Vimalasūri, viz. the Paumacariyam, the Padmapurāņa and the Paumacariu, is the story of Rāma or Padma alone, while Gunabhadra and Pusspadanta integrated this story into the biographies of the sixty-three great men, supports this theory. Ravişeņa is perhaps an
exception in the school of Vimalsūri (cf. supra). 16. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1953a: 31-36 (introduction). 17. Id.: 31. 18. Cf. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1953b: 3. 19. Cf. Vaidya, P.L. (ed.). 1940: 375. 20. Cf. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1953b: 7. 21. Cf. Vaidya, P.L. (ed.). 1949: 397. 22. Cf. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1953b: 232. 23. Id. 24. Id.: 233. 25. Id.: 234. 26. Id. 27. Id. 28. Id.: 235. 29. Cf. Vaidya, P.L. (ed.). 1940: 442. 30. Id. 31. Id. 32. Id. 33. Id. 34. Id.: 443. 35. Id.: 442. 36. Cf. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1960: 7. 37. Cf. Vaidya, P.L. (ed.), 1940: 448. 38. Cf. Bhayani, H.C. (ed.). 1960: 47. 39. Id.: 151. 40. Cf. Vaidya, P.L. (ed.). 1940: 484. 41. Id.: 493
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