Paumchariu Part 1

SR No.: 002523
Original Sutra Author: Swayambhudev
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 458
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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PAUMACARIO
of Tribhuvana Svayambhu and Yaśahkirti in the composition of those Sandhis of the Ritthanemicariu which bear their namamudrās? Second, why it was found necessary, not by one, but by two authors after Svayambhü-one of them was no other than his own sonto supplement the work written by him?
It appears that Svayambhu had nothing to do with the composition of 100-112 Sandhis. And what were the respective shares of Tribhuvana and Yasahkirti can be decided only by a close study of the text and other relevant sources. But this much is certain that the last Kadavaka of the 112. Sandhi of RC. giving the colophon of the complete work was written by Yaśaḥkirti. Several of its lines are found word for word in his Pāndavapurāna'.
The question as to why others felt it necessary to supplement Svayambhu's Ritthaņemicariu is taken up below under Section 5, because the question of multiple authorship is connected with the Paümacariu also.
The work is generally called Ritthaņemi-cariu. In the colophon of 109. Sandhi it is called Ritthanemi-purāna. In the colophon of the whole work (written by Yaśaḥkirti) the work is referred to in view of its theme, as Bhāraha-purāņa, Ņemicariya and HarivamsaSvayambhū himself refers to the theme of RC. as Harivaría'.
The Svay am bhūcchandas
The Svayambhūcchandas (SC.) has been published by Velankar from the only known Ms. in the Baroda Oriental Institute. It is a comparatively modest manual of Prakrit and Apabhramsa metres. The work is planned in eight chapters, the first three dealing with the Pk. section, the remaining comprising the Ap. section. The first twenty-two folios of the Ms. of Sc. are lost. Thus the text of SC. that is available to us is incomplete.
Its Authorship
Svayambhu's authorship of this work is settled by the title Svayambhücchandas", "Svayambhu's metrics' mentioned in the concluding stanza of each chapter. That this Svayambhū is identical with the author of PC. is clear from the numerous citations from the latter work found in SC. It is Svayambhū's practice to cite illustrations from the Ap. literature known to him and in all the cases he gives such illustrations, the name of the original author is also mentioned. But besides these, there are many illustrations cited without any name. Several of these anonymous illustra
(2)
(1) Lines 1-7 are the same as given from the last portion of the Pandavapurāņa,
Kaslival, 1950, 124. Only instead of viuse sayambhir mahi-vitthāriu there is muni-Jasakitti(1) mahihi vitthariu. Further line 16 repeats the same thing partly in other words, while lines 17-19 and 21 are identical with those in the Pandavapurana (ibid, 123). At least three Mss. of the Ritthanemicariu have been reported by Premi (1942, 376 footnotes 2-3): One from the Government MS, collection at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona (No. 1117 of 1891-1895), another from the Ailak Pannālal Sarasvatibhavan, Bombay and the third from the Godika
temple collection at Sämgäner. (3) Appendix I, passage 87, line 1 (4) Appendix I, passage 57, line 2, 13. (5) Velankar, 1935, 1936. (6) The title appears to have been coined by Svayambhu on the model of the
Jayadevacchandas of Jayadeva (Velankar, 1949, 1-40). cf. also the Chandassekhara of Rajasekhara Kavi.