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Publlished in the Vaddarādhane : A study, Dharwad, 1979. Intro. to Brhat-kathakosa, p. 92. These are also found in the later Jaina story literature. (i) H.R. Kapadia has discussed the birth, nature and practice of these varnakas in his History of the Canonical literature of the Jainas, pp. 64-65. (ii) Such a device is also found in Buddhist literature, where it is known as peyyalam. Except story No. 1, where this passage is the last but one. Stories Nos. 1,2,4,6,13,14 and 18 arc the glaring examples containing all features. (i) These references are not exhaustive; but they just show how this stereotyped description of womanly beauty is repeated all over the text. (ii) All such references that are to follow now will be of this nature. All the contents of this list are found in the bigger lists of musical instruments mention:d in the Jaina Canonical works : Lisc in Ancient India as depicted in the Jaina Canons, pp. 183-184. The longest list consists of twenty-one Such seitlements give in the Uttaradhyayana Sūtra, Ch. XXX, noted by Dr. Otto Stein in his Finist Studies, p. 3. This is undoubetedly the author's inimitable Kannada-rendering of the Prakrit vannaa, viz.,
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