A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.s5.6

c11.s5.6

Popularity has had the penalty of many interpolations of the text. There is a remarkable mass of evidence available; in the eighth century Jinasena, applying the art of Samasyāpūraṇa, worked the whole of the text of 120 verses as he knew it into an account of the life of the Jaina saint Pārçvanātha;² it exists in a Tibetan³ version in the Tanjur, and in a Sinhalese rendering; many stanzas are quoted in works on poetics; it was repeatedly⁴ imitated from the *Pavanadūta* of Dhoī in the twelfth century onwards; we have from that century and later many commentaries, including that of Vallabhadeva,¹ who gives 111 verses, of Dakṣiṇāvartanātha (*c.* 1200), who has 110, and of Mallinātha,² who has 118.