The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c6.83

c6.83

x. The Garuḍa has no Prakritisms except in some of the names, and these are too uncertain a basis on which to argue, for those Prakritisms might be original or might be due to the carelessness of copyists, yet one name certainly seems somewhat suggestive². All that is clear is that its account is the last and concisest redaction, that it was probably composed afresh in Skt, and that it makes frequent use of the termination *ka* for the sake of the metre. Its treatment of the name Adhisīmakṛṣṇa suggests that it was composed from a bare list of kings, for it divides the name into two, *Adhisīma + ka* (ending one line) and *Kṛṣṇa* (beginning the next line)³—which seems inexplicable unless it had only a prose list and chopped the names into groups for each line.