Jivandhar Champu

SR No.: 010390
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pannalal Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1958
Total Pages: 406
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 52 MB

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( 8 ) · 1) Jivandhara-carita (JC): Jinasena, the pupil of Virasena, completed the latter's Jayadhavalā commentary in 837 A, D., but left his own Mabāpurāņa (divided into two parts, Adipurāna and Uttarapurāņa) incomplete, possibly due to premature death. His pupil Guņabhadra with much hesitation and after waiting for some time but as a sacred duty to his teacher completed it, and it was consequently consecrated by Lokasena, a pupil of Guņabhadra on 23rd June A. D. 897 in the reign of the Rāshtrakūta king (Krishna II) Akālavarşa. It is in the 75th Paryan), verses 18,-691, of the Mahāpurāņ that Gunabhadra narrates the story of Jivandhara. In the concluding three verses (689-91) he gives the table of contents as it were of the story of which the moral lesson is conveyed in the central verse in this manner : 'As through ingnorance Jivaodhara had mercilessly separated a young swan from its parents for sixteen days, so he suffered separation from his own relatives for sixteen years. Do not compit this sin, ye, pious one. (For Mss. etc. see Velankar : Jinaratna-Kosa (JK), Poona 1944, pp. 304, 29, 42 ; and for Virasena, Jinasena and Guṇabhadra see Premi : Jaina Sāhitya aura Itihāsa (JSI), Bombay 1956, pp. 127 ff.; for the latest ed. of the Mabāpurāņa, Mārtidevi J. Granthamālā, vols. 8-9, 14, Banaras 1951-54).
2) Jivamdhara-cariii : Corresponding to the above, Puşpadanta has included the story of Jivandhara in his Apabhramsa Mahāpurāņa, in Samdhi 99, which he completed in A. D. 965 during the reign of Krishņa III of the Rāshtrakūta dynasty (See the Intro. by P. L. Vaidya to his ed. of the Mahāpurāņa, Borbay 1937-41 ; also Premi : JSI, pp. 225 ff.).
3) Gadya-Cintāmaņi (GC): It gives the story of Jivandhara in ornate Sanskrit prose prefixed with 15 introductory verses, interspersed with a very few of them here and there, and concluded with four lines mentioning the author's name. The work is divided into 11 Lambas, and the colophon of each Lamba, which has a significant name, calls the text by the name GC and mentions the name of the author as Vādibhasimhasūri. The two concluding verses are in the Anustubh metre, but it is obvious that they are practically identical in contents and possibly put together from two different Mss. They bring out one point prominently that Odeyadeva was the name of the author and Vādībhasimba, possibly his title. In the opening verses the author refers to Samantabbadra and remembers with respect Puşpasena through whose grace he became an eminent monk Vādībhasimha by name. JĪvandhara's tale iş