Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 14 MB

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HARIVIJAYA OF SARVASENA 367 Ravanavijaya and Harivijaya were both composed in the skandhaka metre; and Vakpati's Madhumathavijaya was composed in the gatha metre. This series of epics of conquest is no longer extant. It is indeed an irreparable loss to the students of Maharastri language and literature.* Now we turn to the verses drawn by Bhoja from Saravasena's Harivijaya. In Part I, we reproduce the verses which we can definitely ascribe to Harivijaya on the strength of external or internal evidence and in Part II those verses which, we feel, are probably drawn from Harivijaya. In the body we present the text as restored by us and in the footnotes the text as printed in the Mysore edition of Srngaraprakasa and / or the Sarasvatikanthabharana (N. S. edn. 1934). This method of presentation will help readers in judging how far we have succeeded in restoring the original text of the verses. It would also help them in suggesting better or improved readings. For the convenience of the readers who are not adequately acquainted with either Prakrit or Sanskrit, translation of the text is given towards the end as an appendix. Notes and References : 1. fa (anfa?) WIAT 9791 Taufae सअलं चेअ णिबंधं दोहिं पएर्हि कलुसं पसण्णं च ठिअं। जाणंति कईण कई सुद्ध-सहावेहि लोअणेहि व (पा. भे. च) हिअअं॥ [सकलमेव निबन्धं द्वाभ्यां पदाभ्यां कलुषं प्रसन्नञ्च स्थितम् / / जानन्ति कवीनां कवयः शुद्ध-स्वभावाभ्यां लोचनाभ्याम् इव(पा. भे. च) हृदयम् 1] पृ. 456 2. "Dandin mentions the Harivijaya in a mutilated verse at the beginning of his Avantisundari, and refers to Sarvasena as a king probably identical with Sarvasena, the founder of the younger branch of the Vakatakas. If so, the Harivijaya was composed in the first half of the fourth century A. D. about a hundred years earlier than the Setubandha."--Pravarasena's Setubandha, Tr. By Handiqui, Prakrit Text Series No. 20. Ahmedabad-380 009. p.50. 3. No other work is known to have been composed by Sarvasena. Pitambara and Bhuvanapala, two of the commentators of Hala's Gathasaptasati also known as Gathakosa, however, ascribe four gathas to one Sarvasena; this Sarvasena is probably identical with the author of Harivijaya. The four gathas are : (1) पत्तिअ ण पत्तिअंती, जइ तुज्झ इमे ण मज्झ रुइरीए / पुट्ठीअ वाहबिंदू पुलउब्भेएण भिज्जंता // ["Catfe" 7 sata (watai) ufc nad 7 794 Tartare: (FERII:) पृष्ठे बाष्प-बिन्दवः पुलकोद्भेदेन भिद्यमानाः (भिघेरन्) // ] --GSS-III-16