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स्वयंभूच्छन्दः
This is identical with Svayambhu's own Paumacariu, 65.1 as shown by Bhayani, P.C. p. 128.
35.1:
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'(Then he stood) after overpowering both Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, who were deprived of their bows and enraged with fury, the two great wrestlers of the Bharata race and of great merit.' This is obviously the description of an incident in the Mahābhārata war and probably refers to Karna. It may be from Svayambhu's own poem on the Mahabharata theme.
37: This metre is called Punyamalaka by Rajasekhara (R. 73) and Hemacandra (HPk. 6.19.21). But Svayambhu calls it Prajñāmūla. 37.1: 'A black bee keeps on humming and avoids perching on (other) flowers (except the lotuses); is he Brahmadeva of four faces remembering the Navel-Lotus of Nārāyaṇa ?'
40:
39: This Kankellinavapallava is called Navakusumitapallava by both HPk. 6.19.22 and R. 73.
39.1: "The seat of the Old one (i.e., The Creator) with a pair of black bees hovering around it, is fascinating as if it were the face of a lovely damsel with a pair of her restless eyes.' The seat of the Old one is a lotus, the Old one being the Creator Brahmadeva, whose seat is a lotus.
45:
This Puspastaraṇa is Kusumastaraṇa of Hemacandra (H. 6.20.17) and Rajasekhara (R. 52), kusuma being the same as puspa.
41: A line of 8 Mātrās may be made with a Ṣaņmātra and a Dvimātra or a Pañcamātra and a Trimātra, or two Caturmātras.
42.1 The lady of white complexion was seen lying down in her courtyard, as if she were the light of the moon bundled together and left there.'
43: Margavisaṁlāpa of Svayambhu is the same as Madhukarisaṁlāpa of HPk. 6.19.78 and R. 80. Could the reading be mahuari for maggavi? ra and va are often interchanged by our scribe.
44.1:
"There is only one Arjuna (on earth); so saying again and again, Drona bewails in the heaven.' This also looks like a stanza from Svayambhu's Mahabharata poem. The point of Drona's grief is not very clear.
HPk. 6.20.79 and R. 82 call the metre Sukhāvāsa and our Mukhāvāsa may be a misreading for the same.
