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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It is published in the Karnataka-Kavyakalanidhi, 23, Mysore 1908; for other details see Karnataka-kavicarite I, p. 47, Bangalore 1919).
10) Jivandhara-saṁgatya: It is in Kannada, in the Samgatya metre, in 20 cantos and in 1449 verses. The author is Terakanāmbi Bommarasa, the son of Bommarasopadhyaya and grandson of Vadibhasimha Nemicandrarya who had won victory in dispute in the assembly of Prauḍharaya (A. D. 1419-46); and he completed this work in c. 1485, his other poem being Sanatkumara-carita (See Karnataka-kavicarite, I, p. 131).
11) Jivandhara-şatpadi: In an incomplete Ms. available, this Kannada poem in the Bhamini-şatpadi metre stops at verse 118 in the 10th canto. The name of the author is Kotisvara, and he flourished about A. D. 1500. His father Tammana was a Senapati of Bayidur in the Tulu country; and he was the son-in-law of Kamanaseṭṭi of Samgitapura (present Haduvall) in the area round about Mangalore (See Karnataka-kavicarite I, p. 146).
12) Jivandhara-caritre: It is composed in Kannada in the Samgatya metre by a poet called Brahmakavi, perhaps the same as Brahmayya (See JK, p. 141; Karnataka-kavicarite III, p. 423, Bangalore 1929).
One more work, Jivandharanāṭaka, said to have been composed by Haricandra was reported long back; so far no Ms. of it has come to light; and even the existence of it is doubted. (IA, XXXVI, p. 285).
The story of Jivandhara was not only well-known but some of the episodes connected with it were being also freely used in literature. Vadiraja was the Guru of the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II Jagadekamalla. He completed his Parsvanatha-caritam in Saka 947 (=A. D. 1025). In his Ekibhavastotra he has specifically in view the story of Jivaka or Jivandhara when he speaks like this:
प्रापद्दैवं तव तुतिपदैर्जीवकेनोपदिष्टैः पापाचारी मरणसमये सारमेयोऽपि सौख्यम् । कः सन्देहो यदुपलभते वासवश्रीप्रभुत्वं जल्पञ्जाप्यैर्मणिभिरमलैस्त्वन्नमस्कारचक्रम् ॥
The episode is well-known and can be traced in all the versions of the story (For Vadiraja and his works see Premi: JSI, pp. 291 ff.).
Among the later works about Jivandhara, we may note that Brahma Jinadasa composed in Gujarati the Jivandhara Rasa in the 15th century,