Paumchariyam Part 1

SR No.: 001272
Original Sutra Author: Vimalsuri
Author: Punyavijay, Harman
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 432
Language: Hindi, Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, Story, & Jain Ramayan
File Size: 13 MB

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INTRODUCTION
Dodhaka
17, 22, 35, 46, 58, 87, 94. Indravamsa
: 50. Upajati
: 31. Vamsasthavila
: 105. Ruciră
: 51, 70, 72, 76, 78, 84, 98. Vasantatilakā
: 3, 5, 10, 12, 13, 19, 25 37, 39, 42, 44, 47, 55, 61, 66, 67, 68,
74, 77, 88, 92, 93, 99, 100, 101, 106, 118.9 Malini
: 2, 6, 15, 18, 23, 24, 26, 38, 53, 59, 65 95, 109. Mandākrāntā
: 29, 45, 54, 56. Śārdalavaikridita
: 1, 11, 20, 30, 75, 97. Sragdhară
: 7, 33, 73, 82, 107. 20. GLIMPSES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE AS REFLECTED IN PAUMACARIYA :
Apart from its moralising and didactic character Vimalasari's work is highly interesting to an antiquarian as it gives a picture of contemporary Indian society in general and Jain society in particular. The Palmachariya contains a prophetic account as follows:
Here in India after the time of the Nanda Kings the Law of the Jinas will become scarce. The number of heretics would swell, the kings would behave like thieves; people would slander the "Sadhus'; bad practices would be the order of the day; people wouli indulge in Himsă, falsehood and thefts; the ignorant people would bestow gifts on the ignorant, censuring the Sadhus'....."
Jacobi interprets this tradition thus : "Perhaps this refers more specially to Magadha and the adjoining countries, where under the reign of the Mauryas, Buddhism soon attaind the position of a popular religion, and must have become a formidable rival of Jainism."
Vimalasari gives a very graphic description of the eightfold Jing-pajā, Jinābbişeka, Jinavandang. bhakti, Jinastuti', the restorātion of ruined Jain temples, construction of Jain temples, and their existence in every village, town, Sangama (& place where two rivers meet), mountain peak, public square etc. and the images of Jinas made of gold and bedecked with jewels" and his exhortation to the people
1. The first half of the verse is in Indravamsa and the second hall, in Vamśasthavila. 2. Tne concluding verse of the Canto is really 101 and it is in the Vasantalikā. The rest of the
verses (102 to 119) form the colophon. They are in the Arya. 3. The fourth quarter of the verse is metrically defective as it contains 16 syllables. 4. Canto LXXXIX. 42-49. 5. E. R. 1. Vol. VII. 6. Canto XXXII. 71-93. 7. Canto V. 120-122; Canto XXVIII. 46-50; CIX. 12-13
8. For example, कारेइ जिणहराणं, समारणं जुण्णभग्गापडिया। 9. For example, XI. 3a; also VIII. 136-139.
जो जिणवराण भवणं, कुणइ जहाविहव सारसंजुत्तं ।
सो पावइ परममुहं सुरगण अहिणंदिओ सुइरं ॥ XXXII. 85 10. Canto LXVI. 6-12, especially read :
सो नत्थि एत्थ गामो नेव पुरं संगम गिरिवरो वा ।
fa 4*319 T0 fanu -LXVI. 9 11. LXVI. 116.
कंचण रयय भईणं जिणपडिमाणं सुपुण्णाई ।