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to invite parallelisms. On the other hand, the parallels in the two episodes presented by Rajasekhara and Nemicandra, both in context and content, even in expressions and words, are, as shown above, so close that one would accept with no hesitation whatsoever that Nemicandra has based the episode of Mayabhujamga in his Campu on that of Bhairavānanda in the Karpūramañjarī of Rajasekhara.
Yet, one has to admit that Nemicandra has not followed Rajasekhara blindly in his Campu, but worked out the parallel in his own admirable way, so ass to befit his great and the first known) work of fiction in Kannada.
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