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20 PAUMACARIU of Tribhuvana Svayambhu and Yaśahkirti in the composition of those Sandhis of the Riſthaņemicariu which bear their nämanud Tās? Second, why it was found necessary, not by one, but by two authors after Svayambhů-one of them was no other than his own son to supplement the work written by him? It appears that Svayambhú had nothing to do with the compo- sition of 100-112 Sandhis. And what were the respective shares of Tribhuvana and Yaśahkirti can be decided only by a close study of the text and other relevant sources. But this much is certain that the last Kadavaka of the 112. Sandhi of RC. giving the colophon of the complete work was written by Yaśaḥkirti. Several of its lines are found word for word in his Pandavapurana'. The question as to why others felt it necessary to supplement Svayambhu's Riffhaņemicariu is taken up below under Section 5, because the estion of multiple authorship is connected with the Paümacariu also. The work is generally called Rițçhanemi-cariu. In the colophon of 109. Sandhi it is called Ritthanemi-purāņa. In the colophon of the whole work (written by Yaśaḥkirti) the work is referred to in view of its theme, as Bharaha-purāņa, Ņemicariya and Harivansa'. Svayambhū himself refers to the theme of RC. as Harivarśa. The Sva y amb hücchandas The Svayambhūcchandas (SC.) has been published by Velan- kar from the only known Ms. in the Baroda Oriental Institute. It is a comparatively modest manual of Prakrit and Apabhraíba metres. The work is planned in eight chapters, the first three dealing with the Pk. section, the remaining comprising the Ap. section. The first twenty-two folios of the Ms. of Sc. are lost. Thus the text of SC. that is available to us is incomplete. Its Authorship Svayambhu's authorship of this work is settled by the title Svayambhūcchandas', 'Svayambhu's metrics' mentioned in the concluding stanza of each chapter. That this Svayambhū is iden- tical with the author of PC. is clear from the numerous citations from the latter work found in SC. It is Svayambhữ's practice to cite illustrations from the Ap. literature known to him and in all the cases he gives such illustrations, the name of the original author is also mentioned. But besides these, there are many illustra- tions cited without any name. Several of these anonymous illustra- (1) Lines 1-7 are the same as given from the last portion of the Pandavapurāna, Kaslival, 1950, 124. Only instead of viuse sayambhin mahi-vitthariu there is muni-Jasakita(t) mahihi vitthårir. Further line 16 repeats the same thing partly in other words, while lines 17-19 and 21 are identical with those in the Pandavapurana (ibid, 123). (2) At least three Mss. of the Ritthanemicariu have been reported by Premi (1942, 376 footnotes 2-3): One from the Government MS. collection at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona (No. 1117 of 1891-1895), another from the Ailak Pannālal Sarasvatibhavan, Bombay and the third from the Godikā temple collection at Samganer. (3) Appendix I, passage 87, line 1. Appendix passage 57, line 2, 13. (5) Velankar, 1935, 1936. (6) The title appears to have been coined by Svayambhu on the model of the Jayadevacchandas of Jayadeva (Velankar, 1949, 1-40). cf. also the Chandas- hekhara of Rajasekhara Kavi.