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VEMANi BY 



will doubt that the influence of their writings is far more 

 extensive than that of the great rhetorical poems. As might 

 be expected from a Sudra, Vemana is fond of using words 

 corrupted from Sanscrit (Tudbhava) in preference to pure 

 Sanscrit derivatives (Tutsuma). One of these, 76(tfs5a> for 



K^sSm house, which occurs in Book II. v. 177 and 192, seems, 

 as observed by Mr. Brown, to have been coined by Veina- 

 na and occurs in no other writer. Yemana also uses certain 

 words in a sense which they do not generally bear. Of these 

 Mr. Brown notices ^ yellow, which appears to mean gold 

 in the verse beginning 



£i^^-S5b^t5b B. III. v. 142. 

 and lyo^) whiteness, which appears to mean quicksilver 

 in the verse beginning 



1ex>^)s5j-£)^. B. III. v. 148. 



Yemana also uses certain words which appear to be peculiar 

 to the South Western Districts of the Telugu country and 

 which he therefore was likely to use, if as has been above 

 supposed, he was a native of Condaveed. Among these may 

 be named 2£2&. to strike, which occurs in the verse 

 beginning 



tinting Kjfo tfb^ £><3$srjfc. B. III.v, 55. 

 and g) $£D naked, which occurs in B. Ill, v. 143. The fol- 

 lowing may be quoted as samples of his frequent use of 

 Gramia (rustic) forms. 



3>t oa - B - h v. 118. 

 sfco^tfb. b. I., v. 127- 

 ss^a. B. II., v. 166- 

 r>ck. b. VII., v . 12. 



B. III., v. 85. 

 "aOoBSSSrfv. B. III., v. 85. 



