________________ BALBIR i Prakrit Riddle Poetry 673 strange obsession. Normally the Jainas are not supposed to lag behind in this respect. The investigation of individual cases, however, might show that Indians took formal structures as basic criteria for determining species of similar contents and distinguish them from each other, as we also do. It might prove particularly rewarding for the " archeology" of muktaka-poetry, a vast and still promising area of Indian literature. Abbreviations CMPC = Silanka, Cauppannamahapurisacarias, edited by Pt. Amritlal Mohanlal Bhojak, Amedabad, Varanasi, 1961 (Prakrit Text Society Series 3): reference to the page and verse number. GRK = Jinesvarasuri's Gaharayanakosa, edited by Pandit Amritlal M. Bhojak and Nagin J. Shah, Ahmedabad, 1975 (L. D. Series 52 ); reference to the verse number. KM = Uddyotanasuri's Kuvalayamala (A Unique Campu in Prakrit ) and Ratnaprabhasuri's Kuvalayamalakatha (A Stylistic Digest of the above in Sanskrit), Critically edited with various readings by A. N. Upadhye, Part I. Kuvalayamala. Bombay, 1959 (Singhi Jain Series 45); reference to the page and line of this edition. VL = Jayavallabha's Vajjalaggar with the Sanskrit commentary of Ratna deva and introduction. English translation, notes and glossary by Prof. M. V. Patwardhan. Ahmedabad, 1969 (Prakrit Text Society Series 14); reference to the verse number. VMM = Dharmadasa's Vidagdhamukhamandana ( see n. 36); reference to the chapter and verse number. 8$ Annals BORI ( A. M. !
