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adopted or derived from sanskrit.
Now we may proceed see the principles employed by Dhanapala in preparing the Paiyalacchi
1. It embraces four distinct parts of uneven length each new one beginning with a brief statement of the method used. For example : at the end of the V. 19 he says:
ittähe gahaddhehin vanņimo vatthupajjac
(ata ärabhya gathardhaiḥ varpayamo vastu paryāyām).
2. The sets of synonyms requiring a gatha i.e. synonymns which numbers many but do not exceed a gatha are given first. For example he takes the symonyms for God Brahma in the following gathā. Kamalasano sayambhu Piamaho caumuho ya Paramitțhi / thero Vihi Virinco Payaval Kamalajoņi ya* //
Here the synonyms of Brahma are put together in one gatha. This practice of grouping of synonyms is a single gatbas runs from V-2 to 18 i.e. 17 gathās are devoted to this. However in gatha 18 and half he has enumerated 17 synonyms of the word Samüha, in full one and half gathā or three lines.
3. Then he takes to enumerate the synonyms of such words requiring a hemistitch or half of a gatha metre, and records so : ittahe gahaddhehiri vanņimo vatthupajjae (ata arabhya gathārdhaiḥ varṇayamo vastuparyāvāṁ) / 75 gatha are devoted for grouping of words in half gāthās running from gatha 19 to 94. And a total number of synonyms of 150 words in half gāthās are accomodated, For example.
sauri dasaranaho vaikuntho mahumaho uvindo ya / sůli sivo piņai thaņu giriso bhavo sambhū //"
123
Here the synonymns of the first, line are for upendra and the 2nd line is meant for the synonyms of the lord Șiva.
4. The third type, that starts from 95 and runs up to 202 is the synonymns accomodated in one caraṇa i e. fourth part of a gathā, two lines of which are divided into two parts each of unequal length. At the outset the author says itto namaggāmaṁ gaha calanesu cintemi (ito nama grāmam gāthā caraṇeşu cintayami) and then he proceeds. see for examplc the gatha :
vāsavasuo jayanto / pulomataṇayā sai ya indaṇī airavano suragao vijju soāmaņi ya taḍr /
In this gatha the first carana contains the names of indraputra jayanta the second îndrāṇī, third airăvata the Indra's elephant and 4th is for the names of thunderbolt.
5. The part i.e. vv. 202-275, contains the single words explained by a single word and sporadically by a sente ge extending over a
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