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(m) Such a monk, with his and austere life, looks queer with his lean body and deep-sunk eyes : 'gidigidijaṁtram milimilinētram?"9 (pp. 134.3, 151.24-26 etc.).
The stories in the Vaddarādhane also contain a canonical type of synonymous repetitions : (a) 'Sriyum sampattum vibhavamum' (p. 7.16). (b) Sampattum śriyum (p. 8.12). (c) fadharmara pollamānasara durjanara jārajātara' (p 8.14). (d)
palidu nimdisi? (p. 11.30). (e) rūpamam tējamumam yauvanamam lavanyamam... “sucitvamam saucamam śrīyam sampattam sobagam ... ' (p. 30.8- 12), (f) “sriyum sampattum vibhavamum aisvaryamum (p. 97.18).
Both these recurring stereotyped descriptions and synonymous repetitions are used so sparingly and so rhythmically in the stories in the Vaddarādhane that their prose style, instead of becoming monotonous, as is the case with some canonical texts, has acquired a peculiar kind of literary charm and colour unknown elsewhere in Kannada literature.
It has already been seen in the previous chapter that the author of the Vaddaradhane has quoted as many as sixty-two Prakrit verses, incorporated in the text as a part of his narration. Besides these quotations, several Prakrit words and phrases are found used in their natural settings, along with the Kannada words in sentences or clauses":
(a) The following Prakrit words, some of them in their peculiar usage, are spread all over text : vakkhānisu (P. 4.25)- to preach; jänisu (p. 49.18) - to meditate; paccakkhāna (p. 68.27) - abstinence; padikamana (p. 61.31) - consession; jāvajjivam 9p. 28.28) - so long as one is alive. Other Prakrit words likc ayambila (p. 66.11.8) and phrases like 'chattahamadasanaduvalasa' (p. 45.6) - fasting continuously for two, three, four or five days, 12 are incidentally used.
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