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xxxii It is probably to these same considerations of meter that we must ascribe the adjectival use, in more than twenty cases, of numeral derivatives in -dhā, in place of the regular adjective derivatives in -vidha (of which only four examples occur: dvividha, 1. 15; caturvidha, 4. 52 b; ṣaḍvidha, 3. 58; daśavidha, 3. 54 d). Clearly adjectival in construction and signification, though not in form, are the following words, most of which are used as predicates: As doubtful cases, possibly truly adverbial, may be added the following: dvidhā, 3. 15 b; 4. 65 a; dvedhā, 1. 113; 3. 14 b; tridhā, 2. 79 b; ṣoḍha, 1. 111. The regular adverbial use is exemplified in tredhā, 1. 23 a; pañcadhā, 3. 30 a.

Authorship and date. In most of the manuscripts the Daśarūpa is accompanied by a Sanskrit commentary, in prose, entitled Daśarūpāvaloka, or ‘Examination of the Dasarupa.’ Its author, Dhanika, son of Viṣṇu, is described, in one of the manuscripts, as an officer (mahāsādhyapāla) of King Utpalarāja,