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xvii Chailla; (2) Jinadāsa; (3) Dhanadeva; (4) Dhurta; (5) Mātṛdeva; and (6) Vidagdha, while the seventh is Suddhaśila25. But in addition to these stanzas which are quoted under particular names, there is a large number, about 60, of those that are quoted without any name attached to them26. Out of these 60 stanzas as many as 16 refer to the story of the Rāmāyaṇa and 7 to that of the Mahabharata or the Harivamśa. 12 out of the 16 Rāmāyaṇa passages are, strangely enough, traced to Svayambhu's own Paumacariu, which is a poem27 on the Jain version of the story of the Rāmāyaṇa. One more again, i.e., 6.54.1, is found in Svayambhu's Paumacariu, 71.1, though in our ms. it is ascribed to Caturmukha. In addition to these 23 unnamed stanzas, which refer either to the Rāmāyaṇa or to the Mahabharata story, there are a few which refer to morality in general (4.9.4; 4.29.1; 4.31.1; 6.15.1; 6.100.1; 8.6.1), or contain religious advice according to Jainism (8.7.1; 8.8.1; 8.20.1-10; 8.25.1; 8.11.3). One contains a reference to the Vamana Incarnation of Viṣṇu (8.14.1) and another a practical advice to her daughter by a professional prostitute (4.3.1), while a third is a description of a hunting expedition 28 (6.90.1). We have also four fine Utprekṣās (6.21.1; 6.37.1; 6.39.1; 6.42.1) and one or two Anyoktis (4.5.1; 6.31.1) among these stray verses. Similarly, an elephant and a Cakravāka bird, both separated from their mates, are described in a stanza each, while an incongruence between an old lover and a young delicate beauty is the subject-matter of an illustration of the Adila metre (4.12.3). Consuming power of the fire of separation is mentioned in another stanza (6.10.1). In all these cases, where no are attached to the stanzas, it is possible to presume that Svayambhu himself had composed them for the sake of the illustration.
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22. As regards the quotations from Govinda and Caturmukha, all the six which are ascribed to the former evidently belong to the story of the Harivamśa, while those that pass under the name of the latter (except 6.54.1) seem to be from his two poems, one on the story of the Harivaṁśa and the other on that of the Rāmāyaṇa. That Caturmukha had composed a poem on the story of the Harivamsa is quite certain as seen from 4.2.1 and 6.87.1; even 6.65.1 may be from the same poem. But 6.63.1 is a little doubtful; I think it must be from a poem on the theme of the Rāmāyaṇa and accordingly I have suggested an emendation,
25. See Index of Authors on pp. 156-157.
26. In the Prakrit section of the work, as against this, there is hardly any stanza which is quoted without the author's name being prefixed to it.
27. This is edited by Dr. H. C. Bhayani in the Singhi Jain Series, Part I Vidya
dhara Kanda; Part II-Ayodhya and Sundara Kandas, Bombay, 1953.
28. See note on the passage, which is quoted in the Sarasvatikanthabharaṇa, 2.392.
