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Prakrit Verses of Padalipta
8. The stylistic traits of the TL. also are quite remarkable. They amply testify to imaginative power and literary skill characteristic of an accomplished poet. The theme of the tale is original and highly romantic. It has been handled perceptively. The descriptive modes and rhetorical devices are indicative of a vigorous Kavya tradition. 10 The author seems to have been fond of anuprāsa and yamaka,11 which are employed quite effectively in a number of cases. The exquisite rupakas and utprekṣas of the TL. deserve a special study.
9. A work of such poetic excellence is bound to have influenced some of the later works, especially the Prakrit romances. No doubt such a supposition would require to be substantiated through a regular inquiry. But some significant indication we do get from a few passages from two famous romances, viz., the Kuvalayam ālā of Uddyotana12 and the Lilävai of Kouhala.13
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The following descriptions of the city of Kausambi in the TL. and the Kuvalaymālā have clear verbal resemblance :
sa majjha-desa-lacchi uvamāṇam anna-rāyanayarāṇam
(TL. 90) anna-nayariņa tam ciya nisamannaṁ havai savvam || (Kuvalaymälä, p. 31, 1.25)
The vyajastuti mode employed for describing the excellence of a city in the Kuvalayamālā and the Lilävai seems to have derived from the TL. Compare:
ekko ttha navari doso.. (TL. 1491)
aha ekko cciya doso aha navara tattha doso
(Kuvalayamālā, p. 8 1.16) (Lilāvai, 62-63)
The description of Mahanumati and Kuvalayavali in the Lilavai is matched by similar descriptions in some passages of the TL. Compare:
imdo acchi-sahasseņa pecchamāņo na tippejja (TL., 975) sakayattho nayana-sahassa-pecchiro etthā sura-naho |
(Lilāvai, 251)
