Nahta Bandhu Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Dashrath Sharma
Publisher: Agarchand Nahta Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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its contact with the cheek, thus rendering the hand bare. The sandal paste applied to the body of some other lady emitted sizzling sounds'.
These lines clearly echo the ideas and the wording of the Cūdullau-verse and the bahoha-jalu-verse of Muñja quoted above. Especially Cūdullau and Chamachamachamei in the Jambūsāmicarija passage are tell-tale words, and the sequence of the two poetic images here is the same as given in the commemorative verse recorded in the Chandonušasana. It means that to both of these authorities the two Muñja stanzas were known from a source where they appeared in this very order. 1
The evidence from the Jambūsämicariya confirms the Chandonusasana stanza abont Muñja's authorship of particular Apabhramsa verses, and it also establishes the fact that the Cudullau-verse and the bahajalu-verse were closely associated and along with some other verses of Muñja they formed a close group.
1. It should be noted that the Gatha-Dhavala no. 6 (kasarekkacakkaoete.) at the
Jamtusāni cariya very closely resembles the Dohá-Dhavala under Siddhahema 4, 5, 350 (dhanain bisūrai Damiaho etc.). they also must have a common source,
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