Peacock Egg A Parable Of Mahavira

Author(s): W B Bolle
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The Peacock Egg: a parable of Mahavira (Nayadhammakabao 1,3). Translated by Willem Bollee Introduction The Nayadhammakahao is the sixth text in the canon of the Svetambara Jains. It consists of two books containing parables and sermons respectively. The parable of the Peacock Egg tells how monks ought to respect the rules that govern them. It is formulaic in style, as is much of the Svetambara canon, and contains strings of stock phrases that may be found elsewhere. I have indicated in my translation where such stock descriptions are to be supplied, and the source from which they have been taken. Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, here answers a question by his disciple Goyama Suhamma, who in his turn reports to us. The Peacock Egg 50. [97a 5] Thus indeed, Jambu, in those days, at that time, there was a city named Campa! -- description (after Aup $ 1)? Outside this city of Campa, to the north-east of it, there was a park called Subhumibhaga ('beautiful place') rich in flowers and fruits of every season, delightful like the Nandana-wood (in Indra's heaven), provided with a pleasantly fragrant and cool shade. Now at a place to the north of this Subhumi-bhaga park there was a maluya thicket - description (after Naya 1,2; cf. Aup $ 3). At that place a jungle peahen" laid two plump peacock eggs that were produced at the right time', pale like a dumpling, not yet showing cracks, unspoilt, in size larger than a fist, and when she had laid them she sat (there) protecting, keeping and

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THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND THE HUNGRY MONK 53. 54. beautiful dress. [99 a] Then the caravan leaders' sons ascended the carriage with the courtesan Devadatta, drove right across the centre 41 of the city of Campa to the Subhumi-bhaga park and the Nanda lotus pond, got out of the carriage, went into the pond, plunged into the water, splashed one another, and after bathing in the company of Devadatta went out again and, betaking themselves to the pavilion on posts, entered it. After putting on all their ornaments, taking a rest and recovering on a comfortable seat they tasted, enjoyed, shared and ate the many foods (etc. as supra) and thus stayed in the company of Devadatta. After the meal they enjoyed for a while with Devadatta the many human pleasures of the senses. [100a 2] When they had breakfast and lunch the caravan leaders' sons left the pavilion on posts again holding hands42 with the courtesan Devadatta and stayed in the Subhumi-bhaga park enjoying the pleasure grove beauty in the many bowers of alis, bananas, creepers, bowers to abide in (? acchna-ghara),46 scenic bowers, bowers for dressing up (? pasahana-ghara) labyrinths," bowers of boughs/ Sal tree bowers, net-like (?) bowers 47 and flowering bowers. Then the caravan leaders' sons proceeded to the maluya thicket. The jungle peahen saw them coming, left the maluya thicket scared and trembling, squawking loudly and repeatedly screaming "keka" and standing on a branch of a tree remained looking at the caravan leaders' sons and the maluya thicket with steady gaze. The caravan leaders' sons addressed each other saying: "Dear friend, as soon as this jungle peahen saw us coming, she left (...) gaze." There must be a reason for this." With these words they entered the maluya thicket. There they saw two plump (etc. as above in sutra") peacock eggs, addressed each other and said: "Dear friend, it would be very good for us to have these two jungle peacock eggs placed among the eggs of our own pure-bred fowl. The latter, then, (100 b] shall watch over and protect these eggs with their own feathers which they spread over them and we shall have two young peacocks to play with." With these words they agreed on this point with each other, each sent for his own servants and told them thus: "Go, good people, take these eggs and place them among the eggs (...)." They did so. The caravan leaders' sons, after enjoying for a while the pleasure grove beauty of the Subhumi-bhaga park in the company of the courtesan Devadatta, ascended their carriage and drove to her house in the city of Campa, entered, gave her a lavish present of money (pridanam) befitting her social rank, paid their respects and honored her, returned from her house each to his own house and engaged themselves once more in their own business.

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THE PEACOCK EGG frondosa flower, like a parrot's beak or the (red) half of the Gunja berry, the Pentapets phoenicea, the feet and eyes of a pigeon, the Koil's red eyes, like a mass of Chinese roses or vermilion -- when the sun has arisen waking up the clusters of pink lotuses, when the thousand-rayed day-maker glows in his radiance.27 (It would be very good) to take this abundance of food (etc.), incense, flowers, perfume, clothes, wreaths and ornaments and to enjoy for a while (viharittae) the pleasure grove beauty of the Subhumi-bhaga park in the company of the courtesan Devadatta." With these words they agreed on this point with each other and thereupon sent the next day, when the night (...up to) [98 b] radiance, for their servants, and told them thus: "Go, good people, cook abundantly food (etc.), take incense (...), set out for the Nanda pond in the Subhumi-bhaga park and near that pond erect a pavilion on posts. (then) sprinkle it, cleanse it, smear it with cowdung,28 provide it with an arrangement of fresh and fragrant cut flowers in groups of five colours, make it highly delightfulso with the fragrantly rising smell of burning aloe, choice kundurukka, turukka and incense, scent it well with fine perfumes and turn it into a fragrant bottle, so to speak, and stay waiting for each of us." (The servants...) did so.32 Thereupon the sons of caravan leaders gave further (doccam) orders and told their servants: "As quickly as possible, as soon as it is yoked bring a carriage which you have had dexterous people (?) yoke34 with excellent young bullocks matching each other in hoofs and tails, and the end of whose sharp horns have been cut level with each other," who are steered by nose ropes having thread-strings with silver bells and that are exquisitely intertwined with gold;36 they should carry garlands made of blue lotuses. The carriage should be overspread with a network of various jewels and silver and gold bells, and endowed37 with auspicious marks."38 They (i.e., the servants) for their part (vi) brought (a carriage) exactly as they were told. After that the sons of caravan leaders bathed, 39 performed a food sacrifice and expiatory rites for good luck, adorned themselves with few but very valuable ornaments, entered the carriage, went to Devadatta's house, got out of the carriage again and entered Devadatta's house. The courtesan Devadatta saw the caravan leaders' sons approach, became glad and joyful, rose from her seat, went seven or eight steps 40 to meet them and spoke as follows: "The gentlemen should say what they have come hither for." Thereupon the caravan leaders' sons spoke thus: "Dear lady, we should like to enjoy the Subhumi-bhaga park for a while in your company." Devadatta then complied with this request of the caravan leaders' sons, bathed (etc. as above) and joined them in

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THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND THE HUNGRY MONK covering them with her own feathers which she spread over them (pakkha-vaenam). Now in the city of Campa there lived two sons of caravan leaders, Jinadatta-putta and Sagaradatta-putta. Bom on the same day, they grew up and played in the sand box together, married at the same time, were attached to and trailed after each other, [97 b) living in compliance with each other's wishes, fulfilling each other's heart's desires and performing all duties that came up in each other's houses. [98a] Then, one day, these caravan leaders' sons met, encountered each other and sat together, and entered upon the following conversation: "Dear friend (devanu-ppiya), whatever pleasant or unpleasant (thing), leaving home to become a monk or travelling abroad, may fall to our share, that we must experience together."? With these words they promised each other co-operation and continued to go about their own business. [98a 5] In the city of Campa there lived at that time a courtesan Devadatta' by name, rich, proud, famous, owning spacious and vast palaces, dwellings, chariots and draught animals, possessing much wealth, gold and silver, lending out money on interest and making investments, and offering food and drink liberally, skillful in the sixty-four arts, 1deg provided with the sixty-four good qualities of a courtesan," flirting in twenty-nine ways, a excelling in the twenty-one sexual qualities, "able to serve a man in thirty-two ways, "2 having awakened from sleep the nine senses of her body 3 (i.e. a woman in her prime of youth), conversant with the eighteen vernaculars, elegantly dressed in her boudoir (?), of proper gait, mode of laughing, 4 speech, behaviour, sporting, conversation; with perfectly fitting manners,"S holding high the banner (of conceit)," taking a thousand as a fee," (a woman) whom a sunshade and various chowries had been granted (by the king) and who moved about in a litter. 18 She exercised and held sovereign power," preeminence, mastery, ownership, strength and military command over many thousands of courtesans and was enjoying various pleasures under the great din20 of repeated? dancing, singing, instrumental music, strings, 22 beating of time, clapping the hands, tuya-music, and the sounds of big (i.e., deep)23 and clear drums. Then, one day, these sons of caravan leaders came together after having had breakfast24 and lunch together at the proper time;26 they had purified themselves, were perfectly clean and were sitting at their ease; they began the following conversation: "Dear friend, it would be very good to have much food, drink, sweets and seasonings prepared tomorrow, when the night lets daybreak appear and the morning, pale then, fully opens the soft (? komala) blue and pink lotus flowers, when the sun shining intensely red like the Jonesia asoka or the open Butea

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THE PEACOCK EGG 55. The next day, the caravan leader Sagaradatta's son, when the night (...as above, su 52 up to) radiance, went to his peacock egg and afraid, anxious, doubtful, divided, unclear in his thoughts 50 (asked himself) "Shall I be able to play with this peacock chick or not?" Thinking thus he threw the egg up again and again, turned it round, stirred it slightly,so shook it thoroughly, moved it to and fro, made it palpitate, knocked against it, bashed it and made it tick over and over again at his ear. Thereupon the peacock egg became addled." Sagaradatta, the caravan leader's son, one day (101 a) went to his egg, saw that it was addled and exclaimed: "Helas, now I shall not have a young peacock to play with." In consequence of this he became dejected and despondent, placed his head between his hands, was overcome by tormenting thoughts and became pensive. . In exactly the same way, venerable monk(s), whosoever of our male or female ascetics parted with his or her hair" in the presence of an ayariya and an uvajjhaya,54 left his family for the life of a religious wanderer and is afraid (...as above up to) unclear in his thoughts as to the five major vows (or) the six groups of soulss in the doctrine of the Jainas, he or she should in this existence be despised, reproached, blamed, censured and treated with contempt by many monks, nuns, male and female lay followers. Moreover, in the next world, 56 such people will undergo many punishments, will often have their hair pulled out, be rebuked, hit, put in irons, be tormented, suffer the death of their parents, brothers and sisters, wife, 57 sons, daughters and daughters-in-law.57 Much poverty, misfortune, association with unpleasant people, separation from loved ones, bad luck and distress will be their share. Again and again they will ert through the jungle of samsara which has neither beginning nor end, and extends in all four directions. Then Jinadatta's son went to his peacock egg and, not worried about it (...as above), thinking: "It is clear/surely I shall have a young peacock to play with here" he did not throw it up again and again (...as above up to) his ear and the egg, left in peace, one day broke open and out came a young peacock. Jipadatta's son saw it and, glad and joyful, he addressed the peacock-breeders and told them: "You, good people, watch over this young peacock, protect it, raise it by and by with the many things suitable for peacock breeding and teach it to dance." Thereupon the peacock-breeders promised this to Jinadatta's son, took the young peacock, went to their dwelling and raised (...as above up to) dance. The young peacock grew up with auspicious marks, signs and qualities. Its wings and mass of tail feathers were full-sized, it bad a hundred eyes on its many-coloured tail, a blue neck and was able to 45.

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THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND THE HUNGRY MONK dance. At one snapping of the fingers it could be made to make hundreds of dancing steps and keka calls. The peacock breeders seeing the young peacock grown up (...as above up to) calls took it and brought it to Jipadatta's son. He, seeing (...up to) calls, was glad and joyful, presented them with a lavish present of money corresponding to their social rank and dismissed them. Then, at one snapping of his fingers, the young peacock danced, bowing its neck like a tail;62 the comers of its eyes were white,63 and it let its wings droop as if they were detached(?)64; the many eyes of its tail stood up and it uttered a hundred times its call. In the city of Campa, at squares, cross-roads, intersections, highways and paths Jinadatta's son earned (? jayam karemane) for a long time hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands in goods through this young peacock. . In exactly the same way, venerable monk(s), whosoever (...as in su. 55 up to) wanderer and is trustful, free from doubts and firm, he or she should in this existence be treated with respect, greeted, saluted, worshipped , honored, revered by many monks, nuns, 7(...as above) and humbly68 worshipped as being something excellent, auspicious, divine and sacred. Thus you should know, Jambu, the contents of the third lecture of the Parables as told by the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira, the founder (sc. of the Doctrine), the Tirthakara (...as in Naya 1, 1,7 up to) who has reached the placed called Siddhagai ("Condition of Salvation'). -- Thus I say. A Note on the Translation As the older prints mentioned in Schubring's Lehre der Jainas (8 46) were not available to me for my translation, I have used the text published in the Anandacandragranthabdhi (Bhavnagar, 1951) with Abhayadeva's 11th century commentary. I also adopted its sutra numbers beginning with 50 on fol. 97a. Walther Schubring gave us a free adaptation in German which, after his death, was edited from his unpublished works by J. Deleu (Wiesbaden, 1978). I further used the text critically edited by Muni Nathmal in the Anga Suttani Series III (Ladnun 1974/ V.S. 2031). Abbreviations follow the system stated in my Studien zum Suyagada I (Wiesbaden, 1977) and II (Stuttgart, 1988), hereafter BSS. I and I respectively. Nathmal's text concludes with five aryas which in the Bhavnagar pothi belong to the commentary. Notes 1. For the capital of ancient Anga, ca. 6 km to the West of modern Bhagalpur in Bihar, see N.L. Dey, The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India (1927), repr. New Delhi, 1979. 2. See L.D. Bamett's translation of the Antagada-dasao and Anuttarovavaiya-dasao. London, 1907, p. 1 et passim.

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THE PEACOCK EGG 3. Maluya, Pali maluva, probably is a creeper, Bauhinia vahlii, for which see BSS. II, p. 103.. . 4. The pavo cristatus Linn. "Inhabits dense scrub and deciduous jungle (...) always excessively shy and alert. Slinks away through the undergrowth on its legs, and flies only when suddenly come upon (...). Eggs: 3-5, glossy pale cream or cafe-au-lait colour" (Salim Ali, The book of Indian birds. 11th ed. Bombay, 1979, p. 36, no. 71). 5. Sch(ubring) renders pariyagae by 'fast aufbruchreif which seems to be logically impossible for freshly laid eggs, and in view of what will be done with them in the course of the story. Paryayena-prasava-kala-kramenagate paryayagate prakstatvena yakara-lopat pariyagae (Abh.). MW gives 'revolved, elapsed, passed (as years); finished, done' for paryagata and 'to go round, elapse, last, live' for paryagacchati. 6. For the bond of congeniality see the present author's article "The Indo-European Sodalities in ancient India", in ZDMG 131, 1 (1981), p. 187 sqq. As a literary motif it is used in India up to the present day, e.g. in S. Rushdie's Midnight's Children. 7. For the lectio facilior samecca of the text read Abhayadeva's variant samhicca or, perhaps better still, samhiccae, see G. Roth, Malli-Jnata. Wiesbaden, 1983, p. 157. 8. Literally, 'God-given,' but in fact equivalent to our 'Miss So-and-so.' On Indian courtesans see Moti Chandra, The world of courtesans. Delhi, 1973; J.C.Jain, Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canon and Commentaries. Delhi, 1984, p. 216 sqq. 9. Up to this point, the description is taken from Aup (apatika) SS 11, see Bollee, "On royal epithets in the Aupapatikasutra," JOIB 27, 3-4 (1978), p. 97. 10. "These were a stock list, which included not only music, dancing and singing, but also acting (...), sorcery, archery (...), and clay modelling" (A.L. Basham, The Wonder that was India. London, 1954, p. 183). See Kamasutra (Bombay, 1934) 1, 3, 15 (p. 87 sq.). -- Vivagasutta, 2, describing the courtesan Kamajaya, mentions 72 arts. 11. See Kamasutra 2, 2, 3 (p. 275 sq.). 12. According to the scholiast, these are also well-known from the Kamasutra, a glossary of which together with Yasodhara's commentary would be more useful and urgent than further translations, to facilitate finding such details. 13. These are, in Abhayadeva's enumeration, the ears, eyes, nostrils, tongue, skin and mind which suptaniva yauvanena pratibodhitani. 14. Omitted in Vivaga 2. 15. The text, which has samgaya-gaya-hasiya only, has been supplied after L, but Abhayadeva has the compound go on in a slightly different way. The scholiast (99b 1) mentions as a variant sundara-thana-jaghana-vayana-carana-nayana-lavanna-ruvajovvana-vilasa-kaliya. 16. For the metaphorical use of "banner" in the sense of "conceit" see K.R. Norman, Elders' Verses I. London, 1969, note on Theragatha 424 (ussita-ddhaja). Sanskrit lexicographers mention 'pride' as a meaning of dhvaja (MW). 17. On courtesan's fees see W. Bollee, Kunalajataka. London, 1970, p. 110. 18. The karni-ratha, according to Mallinatha ad Kalidasa, Raghuvamsa 14, 13, was a small chariot to be used by women (stri-yogyo'lpa-rathah), and only by the wealthy, as Abhayadeva explains (99b 3).

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THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND THE HUNGRY MONK 19. The following stock phrase has been supplied after Aup $ 53, but it occurs also in Kappa (see next note) and Suy 2, 2, 55. 20. Following Jacobi's rendering of Kappa Jinac 14 in fine. As to mahaya see the present author's article "Die Geschichte vom Frosch (Nayadhammakahao 1, 13]" in K. Watanabe (ed.), Volume in Honour of J. Deleu. Tokyo, 1990 (in preparation). . 21. Jacobi, 1.c. translates ahaya by 'uninterrupted story-telling' which I do not understand. Sa. ahanti means 'to sound (a musical instrument; to repeat' (MW). 22. Tanti, apparently pars pro toto. Jacobi's translation does not exactly follow his text. 23. Or: percussion instruments (like cymbals, ghana) and drums. Jacobi takes ghana to mean 'great." 24. Also, e.g., Vivaga 1, 19. 25. Also, e.g., Kappa 105 and Vivaga 1, 18 and 19. 26. The following cliche has been supplied after Kappa 59. It occurs also in Naya 1, 1 and 1, 13, 15 (see above my paper "Die Geschichte vom Frosch"). 27. See Roth, op. cit., p. 121, note 63. 28. Hardly as a reverential adornment, as Bamett, op. cit., p. 3 thought. 29. The Jain stock list of colours consists of black, blue, red, green and white (e.g. Thananga 5), whereas the Pali Buddhist one contains blue (nila), yellow, crimson, bloodred and white (odata), e.g., MN I 509, 15 sqq. and Vinaya I 25, 32 (with phalikavanna instead of odata). In Pali, flowers of five colours are mentioned, e.g., Sv 140, 10 (PED). -- this and the next stock phrases also occur in Aup $ 32. 30. Thus Jacobi at Kappa $ 32 for uddhuyabhirama. 31. Kundurukka is olibanum, i.e., the aromatic gum resin of Boswellia thurifera tree (Barnett, op. cit., p. 3 note 4); turukka is also olibanum (MW) or the resin of other trees (Barnett, 1.c.). 32. As in Naya 1, 8, 46, (ed. Roth). 33. Hereafter Nathmal may be right in supplying bho devanu-ppiya, cf. Uvas 7, 206. 34. See Hoernle's discussion of lahu-karana-jutta-joiyam, which has a variant juttehim joiyam, in his Uvasaga-dasao translation, p. 134. Sa. laghu-karana means 'lessening, diminishing' (MW), Pali lahum karoti 'to be frivolous' (PED); Roth (op. cit., SS 48) renders the compound by 'Geschicklichkeit.' 35. Same-tulye likhite-Sastrenapanita-bahya-tvakke tiksne srnge yayos tau tatha (7 996 8). Here the scholiast mentions another word -- jambunayamaya-kalava-jutta-paivisitthaehim - which he apparently did not consider canonical, though he comments upon it, but which is actually found in the text at Uvas 7,206 and rendered by Hoernle as 'adomed with neck-ropes (set) with golden tassels' (see also H.'s note 194 on this). In this way bullocks are still decorated for festive occasions, e.g., for the last day of Samkranti/ Pongal and for the Royal Ploughing ceremony in Thailand. 36. Sutra-rajjuke-karpasika-sutra-davarakamayyau varakanakakhacite ye naste-nasika. nyasta-rajjuke tayoh pragrahena-rasmina avagrhitakau-baddhau yau (T 996 11). 37. Uvaveya - Sa. upeta. Neither Pischel nor Geiger mentions such reduplication in their grammars, but see Leumann, Aup glossar, s.v., where, however, there is no reference to Hoernle's note, op. cit., p. 136.

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THE PEACOCK EGG 38. T 996 13 mentions another additional epitheton sujata-jugga-jutta-ujjuga-pasatthasuviraiya-nimmiyam, for which see Hoernle, 1.c. 39. The following cliche has been supplied from Aup $ 17. 40. See Bollee, "Traditionell-indische Vorstellungen Uber die Fusse in Literatur und Kunst", VAVA 5 (1983), p. 229. 41. The background of this striking yet frequent expression is not clear to me. The centre is the most distinguished part of the ancient Indian city. 42. Hattha-samgellie. For the second part of the rare compound, which T 1016 13 is explained by hastavalambanena, see Leumann's Aup Glossar, Buhler's Paiyalacchi Namamala, vs. 221 and Jacobi's Bhavisattakaha, Glossar s.v. samgiliya. 43. Apparently a hapax legomenon denoting a vanaspati-vicesa (T, 1.c.). 44. Acchanam ti asanam (T 1016 14), c.f. Pali acchati (CPD) and R.N. Shriyan, A critical study of Mahapurana of Puspadanta, Ahmedabad, 1969, p. 98 no. 269. 45. See G. Roth, op. cit., p. 202-220. I do not see why in our passage this should not be a bower, but a "stattliches Gebaude" (Roth, p. 202). 46. Rendered 'Zweiglauben' by Roth, 1.c., after the scholiast's ambiguous explanation salah sakhah, athava sala vrksa-visesah (T 102a 1 sq.). 47. 'Masswerkgehause' (Roth, 1.c.). 48. 'Trembling' is followed by two more participles: 'upset' and 'running away.' 49. Kalusa-samavanne: mati-malinyam upagatah (T 102a 6). 50. Asarei: isat-sva-sthana-tyajanena (T 102a 7). 51. Poccadam: a-saram. (T 102a 10); for this rare word's (Dravidian ?) etymology see Turner, CDIAL, no. 8395. 52. This cliche occurs also in Naya (L) 1, 1, 46 and resembles the one in Kappa Jinac $ 92 which is used of Tisala fearing the death of Mahavira in her womb. 53. Munde agarao an-agariyam not in the Bhavnagar pothi. Cf. in L1, 1, 101 and see BSS. II, p. 92. 54. For these kinds of teachers see Schubring, Doctrine, $ 141. 55. Such as have earth-, water-, fire-, wind-bodies belong to the vegetable kingdom. These five do not move of their own, are thavara, as against the sixth group -- tasa -- who are self-moving, such as animals and mankind. See Schubring, op. cit., SS 118 and Dasav 4 (chaj-jivaniya) and, for the form chaj-jiva-nikaya, Leumann's Aup Glossar, s.v. 56. The following cliche is also found in Suy 2, 2, 81 where, however Sramanas and Brahmanas who in their sayings do not propagate ahimsa are threatened with these punishments in the future (agantu, $ 80) which is more suitable. 57. As in the beginning also nuns are addressed, one would expect also pai-maranani and jamauya-mo. 58. Cf. Suttani pata 740 puriso digham addhana samsaram. 59. Su(v)vattae: Sa. su + vyakta + kam? 60. The next words of this stock phrase, viz., vinnaya-parinaya-mette 'as soon as he had reached the years of discretion' and jovvanagam anupatte 'having reached puberty' I pass over as being not applicable to an animal. In fact, these and the next compounds up to pehuna-kalave are used of the child Mahavira at Kappa, 88 51 and 52.

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THE CLEVER ADULTERESS AND THE HUNGRY MONK 61. For the rare noun pehuna which Shriyan (op. cit., no 1122) classes as a pure Desi word see also Turner's (CDIAL 8991) connection with Sa. preksana 'show.' Up to padipunna, the vedha is identical with Kappa SS 9 and 51, where it becomes metrically irregular afterwards, and continues in our text adapted to a bird and metrically regular but for the last syllable of.kalave. 62. Nangolabhanga-siro-dhare: langulabhangavat-simhadi-puccha-vakri-karanam iva (T 1026 1f.). 63. Seyavange: probably to show its positive feelings as opposite to Sa. lohita-nayana 'red-eyed, having eyes reddened with anger or passion' (MW). The scholiast did not understand this and mentions svetapanga only as an alternative to svedapanna which makes no sense. Cf. Sa. sitapanga 'peacock' (MW), a compound Dave takes to mean 'having the orbital skin of a white colour' (K.N. Dave, Birds in Sanskrit literature. Delhi, 1985, p. 270 sq.). -- The pothi adds ginhai after seyavange. 64. Avayariya-painna-pakke (or, with L. oyariya-painnao): avataritau-sarirat prthakkrtau prakirnau-vikirna-picchau paksau yasya sa tatha, tatah pada-dvayasya karmadharayah (T 102b 3). 65. Paniehim: paaitaih-vyavaharair hoddadibhir (?) ity arthah (T 102b 5). 66. The following cliche which stems from Aup $ 2, is also found, e.g., at Uvasagadasao $ 187 (see Hoernle, op. cit., II p. 127). 67. Here the Bhavnagar text reads java vitivatissati. Evam khalu, Jambhu (...), whereas L continues as at Suy 2, 2, 82 and at the end of Naya 1,2 which does not at all fit our story. 68. Vinayena ~ Sa. vinatena. 69. This is not true, of course. At Suy 2, 2, 80 aigara dhammanam is used of the founders of the 363 philosophical schools. lo