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style (See. Notes on this passage P. 129 ); (8. 11-16) the description of the penanceforest; (11. 6-13); (33. 9-16) the description on of fatudarah is full of similes based upon puns; (32. 9-17) the description of the trees in the garden with similes based upon puns; (56. 9–11) the description of the king with a' compound extending over two lines; ( 58. 19-24) the description of the garden; (63. 11-64. 8) the description of Prince Simha; (72. 11-19.) the description of the marriagepandal; (103. 16-24) the description of the forest containing the longest compounds, quaint and peculiar. This sort of prose is purely of Sanskrit influence and is symptomatic of the notions of prose prevalent among rhetoricians and writers of note in those days.
The two chapters of Samarãiccakahã with which we are concerned contain in all 234 stanzas. Though in general the verses are easy there are abundent passages in the work containing the devices both of word and meaning, e. g. st. 143; st. 144. etc. Long compounds st. 52-565 st 160-164. Moreover the device which can be named better as net or chain in found is st 160-164. This device consists in the fact that the line in the stanza
