where Saṃskṛta and Hindi are blended together. An example is this verse in which the etymology of the name Sujātā is explained using Nirukta. Devanagari सुभगो जातो यस्याः सैव सुजाता नाम निरुक्ति यही अष्टावक्र सुभग जातक की बनी सुजाता मातु सही ॥ IAST subhago jāto yasyāḥ saiva sujātā nāma nirukti yahī aṣṭāvakra subhaga jātaka kī banī sujātā mātu sahī ॥ Mudrā In the Mudrā figure of speech, the metre used to compose the verse is indicated by the use of its name in the verse. The last verse of the third canto in Aṣṭāvakra is composed in the Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre (a metre commonly used in Saṃskṛta epics), and also contains the word śārdūlavikrīḍitam. Devanagari अष्टावक्र महर्षि वाक्य कह रहे ज्यों हो रहे मौन थे त्यों ही बिप्र कहोल के नयन भी नीरन्ध्रवर्षी बने । सीमन्तोन्नयनीय वेदविधि भी सम्पन्न प्रायः हुई गाएँ देव सभी कहोलसुत का शार्दूलविक्रीडितम् ॥ IAST aṣṭāvakra maharṣi vākya kaha rahe jyoṃ ho rahe mauna the tyoṃ hī bipra kahola ke nayana bhī nīrandhravarṣī bane । sīmantonnayanīya vedavidhi bhī sampanna prāyaḥ huī gāeँ deva sabhī kaholasuta kā śārdūlavikrīḍitam ॥ In his Saṃskṛta epic Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam, the poet Rāmabhadrācārya has used this figure of speech at eight places. The debates in Mithilā Four conversations are described in the seventh and eighth cantos of the epic. These include the first conversation between Aṣṭāvakra and Janaka, followed by the three debates of Aṣṭāvakra – the first one to convince the gatekeeper to let him into the assembly; then his answers to the cryptic questions of Janaka; and finally the Śāstrārtha between Bandī and Aṣṭāvakra, in which the seemingly simple enumerations of the numbers one to thirteen belie enigmas and latent meanings which lie beneath. These conversations in the epic are the same as in the Mahābhārata, and the comparison between the poetry in the Saṃskṛta of Mahābhārata and the Hindi of Aṣṭāvakra is noteworthy. Critical response The Readers' Forum of the Madhya Pradesh Sahitya Akademi organised a conference of reviewers in September 2010 to critique the epic in Ashoknagar. The chief reviewer, Professor S N Saxena, said that the epic is the story from struggle to success, and is a source of inspiration for the disabled, coming out of the poet's own experience. Other reviewers at the conference included writers Ram Sevak Soni, Sudhir Gupta, Subhash Jain Saral and Pradeep Manoria. The reviewers said that the epic describes the feelings and the