Paumchariu Part 3

SR No.: 002525
Original Sutra Author: Swayambhudev
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1960
Total Pages: 388
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 19 MB

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PAUMACARIU illustrative stanzas ascribed by the Ms. of the Sc. to Caturmukha were shown to be actual citations from one of Svayambhū's own works, viz., the PC. Two similar cases in further support of that point can be now cited with the help of the present part of the PC. The passage cited at Sc. I 156 and 157 under the names of Māuradeva and Rajjautta to illustrate a variety of the Dandaka called Caņdavāla are identical respectively with PC. 73 8 5-8 and 72 15 5-67. As the passages in question occur in the midst of a Kadavaka as its integral part, the possibility of their being outright borrowings on the part of Svayambhū appears very unlikely, and the ascriptions in the Sc. text as available to us at present (based on a single and late Ms.) are to be considered erroneous. Incidentally this brings the number of passages of the Sc, identified from the PC. to fourteen.
A stotra by Svayambhū One more identification, though quite accidental, may be also noted here. Sc. 8, 41 cites a regular Kadavaka made up of 8 yamakas of Paddhaạikā closed with a Satpadi Ghattā to illustrate the Sandhi-opening Paddhaờikā and Chaddaņikā. Now along with the folios of Paumacariya-Tippana Ms. JT. (described at the start of the present section) there were found mixed up a few stray leaves of some other MSS. One of these stray leaves appears to have belonged to a MS. containing a collection of Jain stotras. The contents of that single leaf are as follows:
1. Last lines of a Padmāvatīdevī Stotra'. 2. Pārsvanāthastotra' or ' Yamaka-stotra' in Sanskrit by Padmaprabhadeva, possibly a disciple of Padmanandin. 3. An incomplete Jina-stotra in Apabhraṁsa. The third item in the above list of contents, viz., the Jina-stotra turns out to be identical with the illustration of the Sandhi-Paddhaờikā and Sandhi-Chaddaņikā cited at the Svayambhūcchandas 8, 41-45, except that the Sc. citation omits the opening stanza. The stray leaf contains the text of the stotra only up to the third line of the fourth Paddhadi stanza and so the sequel and colophon are missing. Both the versions are reproduced in Appendix III. As portions of the stotra are anonymously cited in the Sc., it is quite likely that Svayambhū himself was its author.
7 See, Bhayani H. C., 'Caturmukha, one of the earliest Apabhramấa epic poets'. Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, 7, 3, 1958 p. 218. The paper considers Caturmukha's works as the probable source of some epic citations in the Ap. section of the Sc.