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xxvi son of Mṛgāṅkagupta, found favor, as was mentioned above, with Vākpatirāja and later with his successor Sindhurāja, at whose direction he wrote the Navasāhasāṅkacarita, a mahākāvya in glorification of the sovereign. Dhanika quotes one of his stanzas in his commentary on the Daśarūpa. To this same period belongs also the Jain author Amitagati, who finished his Subhāṣitasaṃdoha, or Subhāṣitaratnasaṃdoha, in 993 A. D., in the reign of Muñja. Another work of his, entitled Dharmaparīkṣā, was written in the year 1014.

Scope and importance of the Daśarūpa. In the Daśarūpa Dhanaṃjaya presents, in the form of a brief manual, the rules