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being taken from a Prakrit or Kannada version of the Great Tale or picked up from an oral tradition. Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature, Calcutta, 1969, p.11. (i) A number of similar verses in Apabhramsa have been compiled by Hemacandra in his Prakrit Grammar. (ii) The Vajjālaggam is another such anthology, but planned topically. Rajasekhara tells in his Karpūramanjarī that the Sattaka is to be danced. According to I.Shekhar, the Sanskrit drama has come to the Aryans from the Dravidians and Pre-Aryans. Vide Introduction to the Sanskrit Drama : Its Origin and Decline, Leiden, 1960.
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