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4 DWATRIMSIKAS OF SIDDHASENA
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composed in Anustubh metre and either at the beginning or at the end of these Dwa. there is no change in metres. But in the Dwa. that are eulogistic critical, and devotional, various metres are used. Generally at the beginning and at the end of these, there is a change of metre.
(ii) SUBJECT-MATTER
From the view-point of subject-matter the available Dwa. can be classified under three heads. First to Fifth, and eleventh and twenty-first these seven are devoted to eulogy; the 6th and the 8th deal with critical analysis and the rest are given to philosophy and discussion of the fundamental nature of things.
The 11th Dwa. coming under the first head eulogizes some king. All others have got for their subject-matter the praise of Lord Mahā vīra. Out of these Dwa., the 21st that deals with Lord Mahavira's praise, is, in all probability, composed by some other Siddhasena as seems from a comparative study from the point of style, language and matter. This other Siddhasena must have been a person not bearing the title of Divakara, but by a confusion of the words. Siddhasena and Divakara, the former's Dwa. were fastened upon our Siddhasena Divakara1. Among the Dwã, dealing with
1 Out of the available Dwa the twenty-first and the twentysecond Dwa. have been printed with commentary. Udayasagara Suri (Vidhipakṣiya-Añcalika) of the 16th century has written a commentary on the twentyfirst Dwa. and the famous Acārya Siddharsi has written a commentary on the twenty-second Dwa. otherwise known as Nyayavatara. No other Dwa. has been known to have any commentary written on it.
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