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² II, 311. The words in Italics in the translation have two meanings; the second meaning has been given within brackets. The K e n-y ō g e n of Japanese poetry is much similar to Śleṣa. Cf. K. Florenz, Geschiohte der Japanischen Litteratur, Leipzig 1906, p. 27 f; Winternitz, Mitteilungen der Anthropolog. Gesellschaft in Wien. Bd. 35, 1905, p. 240, and J. Takakusu, JRAS 1905, 871 ff. The kāvya-style has all through manifold parallels in Chinese and Japanese poetry. See Florenz, ibid. p. 129f., 148, 154. On similar aspects in other literatures, see Gray, Vāsavadattā, p. 32 ff.