Lilavatisara p65

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Idioms: 11 56. III 174b (praharakai dā ) ( mastake pāya - ) III 211 (sutaṃ mama ) III 263 dhātā), IV 202 (also IX 90 ) ( pāde'vadhāryatām ) X 42 (śrutī te vādite), X 54 ( veḻā khot) X 263 ), viṣāṇa), XVI 37 ( puruṣo bhūyāḥ), XVII 15 ( akuṇḍali).
II 67 ( maskarāmmartumicchasi ) 111 139 also VII 265 (nivāneṣvavalan 32 (na X 32 ( na paścānnāgrataḥ paśyati), (mare), XIV 126 (śirasi kiṃ
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Jinaratna's scholarly knowledge of Sanskrit classics, lexicons and grammars is revealed in his free choice of words, forms and expressions irrespective of their being standard, substandard, obsolete, in vogue, rare or customary. As has been pointed out further below, a strong undercurrent of the spoken dialect of the day can be detected in the numerous idioms, proverbs and lexical asages of NL., which are frequently nonSanskritic and which have Late Middle Indo-Aryan or Early New IndoAryan parallels.
So also we can turn almost any page of LS. to find instances of economy and compactness of expression. It is true that we do directly anything about the style, and the narrative, expressive and literary qualities of NL., as also about how much LS. was indebted to NL. for its style and diction. Even so it will be unexceptionable to say that Jinaratna deserves great credit for the linguistic and literary competence revealed in his abridgment.

A passing observation is to be made about the title of the original and the abridgment. Lilavat plays such a marginal and even insignificant role in the whole of the narrative that the naming of both the works after her seems quite inappropriate. The same remark applies to some extent to the Kavalayamālā also, which served NL. as the model. But in that case at least the hero Kuvalayacandra serves as the connecting thread. In the case of LS and NL. Lilavati does not play a similar role,