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JAINISM IN LITERARY TRADITION. 125
(d) Next in•the matter of prose
A fairly good specimen of panegyrical prose may be quoted from Nannaya's Mahibhāratam, the operring chapter. • The passage runs thus :
“Akhila jaladhi vela valayavalayitavasumati vanita vibhusanamb aina vegi desambunaku nayaka ratnambunum boniraja mahendra purambun amdu mahendra mahimato, baramanandambuna nubhavincucu Sakalabhuvana lakshmi vilasa nivasambaina ramya harmya talambuna mantri purohita senapati dandanayaka dauvarika mahapradhanananta samanta vilasini parivrtůnd ai yapāra sabdasastra paragul aina vaiyakaranulunu bharata ramayanadyaneka, purana pravinulaina pauraniku*luny, mrdu madhura rasabhava bhasura navar'tha vagana racana visaradulaina mahakavul unun vividha tarka vigahita samasta sastra sagara gariyah pratibhulaina tarkikul unun adiga aga[gu vidvajjanam bulu parivesthinici koluva vidyavilasa gosthi sukhopa visthund ai yista katha vinodambůlan undi. I.” Bh. I. 1-8.
Juist a rapid reading of this passage brings out to the ear the markedly alliterative and sonorous nature of word juxtaposition so much noticeable in the prose excerpts from the inscriptions quoted above. The other feature is the massage of long adjectival compounds and descriptive phrases towards the latter' part which describes Rāja Rāja's court as in the
