there is great variation between versions of his śatakas, and together the available manuscripts have over 700 verses instead of 300. d. d. kosambi identified about 200 verses that appear in all manuscripts. despite the variation in content, there is remarkable similarity in theme; kosambi believes that each "śataka" came to attract a certain type of stanza similar to the ones present in the original collection. moreover, at least among the 200 "common" stanzas, there is a distinctive voice of irony, scepticism and discontent, making the attribution to a single author plausible.