Book Title: Studies in South Indian Jainism
Author(s): M S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
Publisher: M S Ramaswami Ayyangar

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________________ (2) · JAINISM IN LITERARY TRADITION. 127 makuta tata ghatita manigana madhukara nikara paricumbita carana sarasiruha yugalo." Compare with these the followiny passages from the distinctly. panegyrical ,verses from Nannaya's Mahābhārata :(1) Nanavani natha kiritatativilasadratnasamghatitapadakamala II.I. ii.i. vinamad rajanyakiritamanivirajita padam bhoja I. vi. l. (3) pranamadakhiladhatri pala ka lola cuda I kirana sri manigana mandi tamgari narendragrani l. vi. 309. (4) pafanrdamanimakutaghatita pada vibudha nuta III. I. 39. (5) namannrpa kiritacumbicarana dvaya III. ii. 355. Hěre below are references to similar phrases from Pampa a Canaresc poet of great renown, a century or two earlier than Nannaya :(1) avanipativrata mani makuta kiranad- Pampa Bhārata yotita padam. J I. 16. (2) akhila' kamapala mauli mani kira- | Pampa Bhārata napalita nakha ? I. 18. mayukha ramjita caranam. Apart from these references, others may be Nannaya and quoted from Pampa's works which seem to have Pampa. suggested to Nannaya the diction of his panegyrical verses in the Mahābhāratam. The similarity of phrasing is so striking that one

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