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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INTRODUCTION
13) With afru o furade 1 Svayambhu's Paümacariu 80, 4, 2a and a fount for 75 175 187 FTZ (F) 7 far TETE(97) Svayambhū's Ritthanemicariu 24, 7, 4 cf.
cf.
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y... af R33 37 o 3 Hemacandra's Prakrit Grammar 4 360 (2).
It is not unlikely that for some of these illustrations which Svayambhū himself has taken from others, Hemacandra may have used directly the original sources. It should be noted that the citations as found in Hemacandra's works appear to preserve the language of the original as contrasted with their comparatively modernized language in the published text of the Svayambhūcchandas.
5. THE PAÜMACARIU AND ITS SOURCES The Pa i macariu
The narrative of Rāma, who is also known as Padma (Pk. Paüma) in Jain mythology and who along with Laksmana and Rāvana makes up the eighth trio of Baladeva, Väsudeva and Prativāsudeva' respectively was related by many Jain poets. Svayarnbhū's Paümacariu is such a Rāma-epic in Apabhramśa.
In most of the colophons of various Sandhis of PC. the title appears alternatively as Paümacariu or Pomacariu equivalent to Sk. Padmacaritam. At the end of the work it is called Ramayanapurāņa. The donor's colophon at the end of MS. S. refers to the work as "the Šāstra called Rāmayana." The Jinaratnakośa describes the work under the name of Rāmāyanapurana and in the colophon stanzas of Sandhis 88, 89 of PC. it is called simply Rāmāyaṇa. In the upper corner of the margin of folio 222 verso of MS. S. we find FTOHT TTTO PR? In the colophon stanza of the 18. and the 84. Sandhi (the latter written by Tribhuvana) the poem is called Rāmaevacariya, Sk. Rāmadevacarita, and once, in the colophon of the 86. Sandhi it is referred to as Rāmacariya, Sk. Rāmacarita. In the body of the work Svayambhū mentions it as Rāmāyanakava (1 1 19) "The Rāmāyana Poem', Rāmāyana (23 1b) or Rahavacariya (23 1 95, 40 ), Sk. Raghava-carita, while the subject-matter is generally called Rāma-kaha (1 1, 1 2 1), Sk. Rama-katha. Of these titles Paümacariu is the most frequent and evidently one intended by the poet.
PC. has a roundly estimated extent of 12,000 Granthāgras. It contains a total of 1,269 Kadavakas, distributed among 90 Sandhis which are divided into five books (called Kanda, Sk. Kānda) in the following manner":
1. Vijjāhara-Kanda (Vidyadhara-Kānda): 20 Sandhis. 2. Ujjhā-Ko (Ayodhya-K°): 22 Sandhis. 3. Sundara-Ko: 14 Sandhis. 4. Jujjha-Ko (Yuddha-K°): 21 Sandhis.
5. Uttara-Ko: 13 Sandhis.
According to this account and also according to the actual contents, the Yuddha Kānda is finished with the 77. Sandhi and indeed at the end of that Sandhi we find a statement to this effect
(1) According to Jain mythology there flourished in past sixty-three great per
sons, Salakápuruşa, which included twenty-four Tirthankaras, twelve Cakrins, nine Vasudevas, nine Baladevas and nine Prativasudevas. Krsna, Balarama
and Jarāsandha make up the ninth group. (2) The extent in Kandas is given in the colophon stanzas 37-38 (Appendix I).