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14. Verbal agreements or close parallelism in ideas with the TL.
can be pointed out from some other works also. At TL. 296 and 970 a damsel is described as a river by means of the figure rūpaka. The same idea is elaborated in the illustrative stanza at Svayambhūcchandas, 1. 26.1 (Note cakkavāya-thaņajuyalā of the TL. and paohara-rahamgiã of the other work). Vikramorvasiya 4.52 also is relevant in this context (The garment of foam and the girdle of aquatic birds find correspondence in the TL). The description of the moon as a goose (sasihamso) of the sky-lake (gayana-sara) finds correspondence in a late Gāthā known only through its defective Sanskrit chāyā : See Weber's edition of the Sś. Gāthā 719 (with the comparable expressions gagana-tațāka and mīgānko marālaiva). But it may not be plausible to see in these agreements more than a general sharing of a stylistie tradition.
