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It is not unlikely that he was a king flourishing at a con- 

 siderably later period than the celebrated father of Devapal, 

 but in any case he appears to have eclipsed the local repute of 



Mayanamatl's son. 



The main incidents of the epic which has come down to 

 us from different sources and with more or less different ver- 

 sions clearly point to their origin in the pre-Mahomedan days, 

 though, as is but natural in the case of a long ballad, trans- 

 mitted from mouth to mouth and sung for the amusement of 

 an everchanging audience, numerous interpolations have tended 

 to give it a different colouring. 



