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are presented in quite a nice manner; and the section forms a good essay on the moon. Poetic embellishments are seen here and there, but they are not as remarkable as in Kansavaho. The number of metres used in this poem, as analysed above, is quite moderate and proportionate to the length of the poem.
Footnotes :
1. This Essay is prepared during my tenure of the Springer Research Scholarship, University of Bombay, Bombay.
2. Rāma Pānivāda's Kamsavaho, published by Hindi Grantha Ratnākara Kāryālaya, Bombay,
3. Kansavaho, Intro. p. 13.
4. History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, p. 257, paragraph 177.
5. Karsavaho, Intro., p. 23.
6. The text has lost some verses at this place. The contents in the square brackets I have added here acc Bhāgavata which is being closely followed by our author.
7. I have used the Nirnayasagar Press, Bombay, ed. of Bhagavata.
8. See for instance an edition of Bhasa's Svapnavāsavadattam, published by R.V. Hirekerur, Poona, 1938.
9. Hillebrandt has already complained against some of these tendencies in his Preface to Mudrārāksasa, Breslau, 1912.
10. KEITH : The Sanskrit Drama, pp. 335, etc.
11. See for instance the description of Mss. G.N. N2 and K in the Preface to Vikramorvasiyam, edited by S.P. PANDIT, Bombay, 1901.
12. KEITH : The Sanskrit Drama, p. 337. 13. Kamsavaho, Intro., p. 39.
14. See for instance i. 64 ab, and also some Puspitāgrā verses in the Third Canto.
15. See for instance iii. 61 a, iv. 73 a. 81 c, etc.
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