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अमरुशतकम्
 
मितम् । and so on. In view of this mutilated form and its
many corruptions, it would be proper to assign it an in
ferior place, and the evidence that it offers in determining
the original text is not of that high probative value which
the other recensions have, but is at best secondary.
 
If this is conceded and we take into consideration the
verses which are common to Arjuna, Vema and Rudrama.
the number of verses about which there should be no rea-
sonable doubt will rise from 72 to 84 ; and the number of
verses excluded by only one of these three and, therefore,
doubtful verses will be 16 viz.--
 
(1) धीरं वारिधरस्य ( 2 ) मलयमरुतां त्राताः
 
( 3 ) सा बाला
वयमप्रगल्भ ० ( 4 ) पुरस्तन्व्या गोत्र० (5) ततश्चाभिज्ञाय ( 6 ) न
 
जाने संमुखायते
 
(7)
 
अनल्पचिन्ता • ( 8 ) इति प्रिये पृच्छति
 
( 10 ) जाता नोत्कलिका
 
( 9 ) यास्यामीति समुद्यतस्य
( 11 ) तसे
महाविरह ० (12) सैवाहं प्रमदा 13) इदं कृष्णं कृष्णं ( 14 ) तन्वङ्गया
 
गुरुसंनिधौ, all excluded by Vema ;
excluded by Arjuna and (16)
by Rudramadeva.
 
( 15 ) सालक्तकेन नवपल्लव ०.
कान्ते तल्पमुपागते excluded
 
Nearly all these verses with the exception of 7, 8, 10 and
13 are ascribed to Amaru in the anthologies and other
secondary testimonia ; while in regard to the 12 verses
 
found only in Vema viz. (1) अच्छिन्नं नयनाम्वु ( 2 ) रोहं-
न्तौ प्रथमं
(3) आयस्ता कलहं ( 4 ) क्वचित्ताम्बूलाक्तः
(5) स्मररसनदी० ( 6 ) निःशेषच्युत ० ( 7 ) शठान्यस्याः काञ्ची०
( 8 ) पुष्पोद्भेदमवाप्य (9) पराची कोपेन ( 10 ) स्विन्नं केन मुखं
( 11 ) नान्तः प्रवेश ( 12 ) प्रियकृतपटस्तेय, with the exception
of अच्छिन्नं नयनाम्बु - not a single verse is ascribed to Amaru
in the anthologies or in rhetorical works.