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author is not similar to that found in the YBS and the SBh. It would not be improper to call the style of the author as synthetic in these works. Cogency, clarity and synthetic approach being the main characteristics of the descriptions in these texts, the view-point of our author seems to have been the elucidation of the topic in limited words.
Asanga usually adopts Anuştubh and. Āryā metres in the various uddānas in the YBS, the Bodhi., the $Bh. as well as in the commentary on the VCPP. It is also significant to note that in some of the verses, which seem to be the redacted form of the Pali gāthās or BHS verses, certain irregularities in metres are also found. Leaving aside these exceptions, the metres are othewise not defective.
