Katharatnakar

SR No.: 001835
Original Sutra Author: Hemhans Gani
Author: Munisundarsuri
Publisher: Omkar Sahityanidhi Banaskantha
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 380
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Story, & Literature
File Size: 24 MB

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No. 5, 11, 21, 27, 28, 49, 56, 76, 163. 7. Anecdotes Connected with Historical characters : No. 12 कुमारपाल and हेमचंद्र 165 वस्तुपालमंत्री 92 कुमारपाल
166 डामरमंत्री 95 शेरसिंह पातशाह and माधव 176 अभयमंत्री 108 हेमचंद्राचार्य
231 Muslim ruler (Sultan) of Ahmedabad. 8. It is but natural that numerous stories in the collection are such that
they are specific to or known only from the Jain tradition. To point out
just a few : No. 37 नियमपालने नीलकण्ठ-विप्र-कथा 85 आचारे दुर्गंधाराज्ञी-कथा 38 दाने भीमला-वणिक्कथा
138 धनपाल-शोभन-चरित्र 39 सत्संगे पटु-बटु-खटु-कथा 162-163 मधुरभाषणे मणिमती-कथा; कटु-भाषणे 40 ज्ञाने भीम-वणिक्कथा
नागिनी-कथा 78 छले आभीरपुत्री-कथा
171 दैवबले महाबल-कथा 81 जिनवाणीश्रवणे रौहिणेय-चोर-कथा 183 नियम-पालने कमल-श्रेष्ठि-कथा 9. The following stories are obviously from the oral tradition. Some of the we find in the folk-tales in the oral tradition of Gujarat. No. 17, 19, 24, 32, 34, 38, 41, 48, 50, 68, 71, 84, 113, 122, 123, 124,
139, 159, 168,170, 174, 218, 219, 222, 241. 10. Riddles and Proverbs: NO. 29, 30, 234, 235. Besides these No. 72, 219, 256 and 257 form a separate class.
Comparativte Notes and Observations Story No.
___Theme : Parallels 5. कलिकाल-स्वरूपे युधिष्ठिर-कथा
Kaliyuga appearing before the पाण्डव putting the mixed dress of a ब्राह्मण and a यवन, भीम going in the eastem direction found a twelve-mouthed buffalow grazing and still remaining famished (= king exacting twelve types of taxes and still the royal treasury remaining empty), 3rf found in the sourthrn direction a cow itself sucking its new-born calf (C.= parents living on daughter's wealth), Tohre found in the eastern direction in a cage swans serving a crow (= noble persons serving a wicked king); Hada going in the northern direction found two lakes splashing their waters towards each other without allowing a drop to fall in the lake that lay between them (= supporting in-laws but neglecting family relatives of one's own side). Thereafter that stranger showed to ferfor a man with his boots tyed on his head and trying to fill six pitcher's by means of well-water drawn just-once with one pitcher only, but that one pitcher remaining empty, eventhough water of six pitchers were poured into it