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have been referred to.1 The Naravahanadattakaha is cited as an example of kaha, while the Tarangavatī, Malayavatîs and Magadhasena have been mentioned as akkhatiya s.* This classification between kaha and akkhatiya shows that the author must have been aware of the existing difference between the two according to which the akhyāyika was necessarily based upon certain historical theme, while the kathā could be purely a fiction.5 Among the akkhānagas the Dhuttakkhānaga has been referred to from where the author largely quotes. The existence of these different forms of classical literature may be easily attested to from the works of the authors like Dandin, Bana and Subandhu who flourished in and around these centuries.
1, NC. 4, p. 26. 2. a E - TE F Y -NC. 2, p. 415; Bịh. Vf. 3, p. 722. Nara
vāhapadatta is the hero of Gunādhya's Brhatkathā (see-Keith, op. cit., pp. 270-71 ). Perhaps it might have been a book written on the
same theme. 3. NC. 4, pp. 26, 415; Bịh. Vr. 3, p. 722. Tarangavati was written by
Pädalipta Sūri in the third century A. D. The book is now lost to us, only its fragments are available.-Sce, Munshi, K.M., Gujarat and It's
Literature. 4. Stupiai atradi, Tamil, T TY-NC. 2, p. 415. 5. For difference between Kathā and Akhyāyikā-sce, Kieth, op. cit., PP.
376, 383. 6. 39@tout YORE NC. 4, p. 26. The Dhuttakkhānaga mentioned in
the NC. may be different from the Dhurtākhyāna of Haribhadra Sūri written in the 8th century A. D.
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