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He also praises the importance of the spoken dialect i. e. in a wide sense the Prakrit language of his time. It shows that the influence of the Prakrit works was so great on him that he avoided to compose his work in the traditional way i. e. in Sanskrit, but he preferred to adopt the colloquial language of his time, i. e. a dialect of modern Prakrits. And as it was the spoken language, the impact of it was considered to be more strong and permanent on the people. Tulasīdāsa says:-Syāma surabhi paya visada ati gunada karahi saba pāna/Girā grāmya Siya Rāma jasa gāvahim sunahing sujāna/TR, 1.10 (kha).
Hereby we can conclude that Tulasidasa was acquainted with the Jaina works on Rama-story. He has adopted some elements of Rāma-story of the tradition of Paumacari yaṁ without disturbing in any way his allegiance to the Brahmanical Rāma-story. The influence of PCV's tradition is seen on the characterisation as well as on the pattern of the previous birth story and specially on the style of his Ramacaritamanasa.
C. CONCLUSION
It would be apropriate now to designate the influence of Paumacariyam as the influence of the tradition of Paumacariyam because there can not be on several works a direct influence of the Paumacariya. Its influence has been spreading through subsequent Jaina works based on it and through the Brahmanical works which were initially influenced by either the PCV or by the Jaina works based on the former,
The elements of PCV's tradition which have influenced non-Jaina works are generally concerned with the upgrading of the valour of characters and the elevation of characters. According to the proportion of their influence they can be arranged in the following descending order?:--
1. Rāma's success among various candidates at the 'svayamvara' of Sīta.
Battle between Rāma and his sons. 3. Disturbing of Rāvana's Yajña. 4. Progeny of Hanumat.
5. Association of Kaikeyi with the war-chariot of Dasaratha, Exonerating of Kaikeyi from the charge of exiling Rāma and her request to Rama to come back, Sambūka as the nephew of Rāvana and his death at the hands of Laksmana, Lava as elder brother of Kuśa.
1. See also the Table attached in the end of the work.
