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forms, etc.). Once in a while, we find therein an Anustubh-pada of nine syllables, (p. 74, v.285, p. 76, v. 338).
The stylistic variation ranges from simple, racy, colloquial, to ornately descriptive. The author is well adept in handling the traditional narrative and descriptive traditions, and has freely exploited the treasures of the available subhāṣitas.
As to the Apabhramsa passages of DRK. it is necessary to deal with them separately. Here I shall point out the lexicographical importance of two specific words occuring in DRK. dhakkari In the illustrative tale of 'A rankle-prone potter' (3707a-ag- hr-17271; MK, pp. 39 ff. DRK, pp. 382 ff.) it is said that, in the big hall of his house, beggars and wanderers from various places used to lodge and at night they would tell lots of absurd yarns which would cause rankling to the potter and he would loose his sleep. The text in MK. reads as follows:
वसंति तीए [सालाए] नाणादेसागया कप्पडिय-तडियाओ । जंपंति मिलिया रयणीएअघडमाण-ठिक्कर-सयाणि य अणक्ख-वस-विगय-णिद्दो । कयत्थेइ अणक्ख-बहुलो णिय-सिरं खलुंकाहिं । (पृ. ३९)
The corresponding Sanskrit passage in DRK is as follows:
वसन्ति तस्यां [शालायां] नानादेशागताः कार्पटिकादयः, वदन्ति च रजन्यामघटमानकानि टक्कर-शतानि, अनक्ष-वश-विगत-निद्रो रोषवशयपरिगतश्चूर्णयति
टक्कराभिरनक्षबहुलो निज-मस्तकम् । Here thikkara- in the Pk. passage and zm in the Sk. passage are corrupt readings. The real word is dhakkari, ‘unbelievably marvelous.' Siddhahema 8-4-422 has recorded dhakkari in the sense of Sk. adbhuta and illustrated it (dhakkari-sära, 'of unbelievably wondrous strength'). In Svayambhu's Paümacariya we have.
जगे लोएहि ढक्करिवंतएहि उप्पाइउ भंतिउ भंतएहि । "The deluded people at large, through their unbelievable miraculous accounts, have produced delusions." The Tippana on the word dhakkarivaintaehim is hathoktiyuktaih. But here also dhakkari does not mean "a dogmatic statement, but rather a tall wonderous statement." The poet means to say that people have been spinning long yarns with respect to the narrative of Rāma.
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