Its mathematical content consists of rules and examples, written in verse, together with prose commentaries, which include solutions to the examples.
As explained earlier, the main texts were composed in Sanskrit verse, and were followed by prose commentaries.
The work is studied across the Muslim world as a primer on logic and is often read in conjunction with al-Akhdari's own prose commentary.
He produced a poem of 139 hexameters and prose commentary on the first 105 lines.
A small number of the best known objects have a prose commentary.
The rules here are set forth in kanda metre and followed by a prose commentary by the author and is considered a writing of high value.
The commentators instead wrote prose commentaries on the texts (rather like lectures,) working through, book by book, through the Digest.
Like the dinsenchas ("place lore") poems, the banshenchas poems are accompanied by prose commentary probably of a slightly later date.
Others, such as Hans Keller (who devised a technique he called Functional Analysis) used no prose commentary at all in some of their work.
The poems are accompanied by a prose commentary.