Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

his effective force in the speeches of his characters and his flowery language are also some of the outstanding features of his poetry. "Māgha distinguishes himself by his rarities; we find the idiom mājīvan let him not live; khalu indeed/verily with the gerund in the sense of prohibition; the gerund in am which is only common Brāhmana style; kram to be weary as a finite verb, as in the Bhatti Kāvya and Kādambarī; rare aorist forms, and the technical distinction between viṣ van eat noisily and viśvan howl."

As said above, Bhāravi has influenced Māgha immensely and the latter has modelled his poem on the same lines as set forth in the Kirātārjunīya. Bhāravi eulogises Shiva while Māgha has the mead of praise for Vishnu. The prominent similarities have been noticed as under:

3 Keith, History of Sanskrit Literature.