Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

6. Shiva in the guise of the lord of hunters sends a threatening message to Arjuna inciting him to fight.

6. Shishupāla’s message and threats to Shree-Krishna through an ambassador, and Shri-Krishna’s preparation for war.

7. Tour de force feat of skill of both the poets with regard to the description of battles between Shiva and Arjuna (canto XV) in one case and Shri-Krishna and Shishupāla in the other (canto XIX).

8. In both the poems, the authors have respectively begun the first verse of the first canto with the word "Shri" and at the end of each canto the word "Lakshmi" has been used to indicate the end of the chapter.

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