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· 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
