Life and Stories of Jaina Savior Parcvanatha

SR No.: 011028
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Maurice Bloomfield
Publisher: Maurice Bloomfield
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 271
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, N000, & N040
File Size: 20 MB

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the tale of Domuha, one of the four Pratyekabuddhas, Guņamālā, king Domuha's queen, has seven sons, but no daughter. She vows an oblation to the Yakkha, called Mayaņa. She obtains a daughter, announced by a dream, in which she receives a cluster of blossoms from the tree Parijāta. And she names her Mayaņamañjarī, 'Love Blossom.'
For sixteen inauspicious dreams, see Jātaka 77.
Additional note 11, to p. 45: Eating grass.
Enemies must be spared, when they place themselves in the humble condition of non-carnivorous animals. For, carnivorous animals, that do not eat grass, are, by implication noxious, and may be slain; cf. Benfey, Pañcatantra ii. 316 (i. 599). On the principle of noblesse oblige human beings that present themselves by some sign in the character of grass-eaters are exempt from injury. See this text 3. 592; Prabandhacintāmaņi, pp. 93, 300. Accordingly, in Pārçva 3. 377, king Hariccandra puts grass on his head to show that he is willing to sell himself into slavery. In Prabandhacintāmaņi 161, 279 grass and water are thrown, by way of challenge, into the house of a prospective disputant, to symbolize his ultimate submission. See Tawney on p. 210 of his Translation of Prabandhacintāmaņi; Pischel, Proceedings of the Royal Prussian Academy, 1908, vol. xxiii, pp. 445 ff.-Note that in Pārçvanātha 5. 227, 229; Samarād. 2. 409, 412, a sword or axe is tied to the throat, as a more obvious sign of submission.
Additional note 12, to p. 47: Wicked ascetics. Kāpālikas are worshipers of Çiva of the left hand (cākta), who carry skulls of men as ornaments, and eat and drink from them. They are always engaged in evil and cruel magic for their own aggrandizement, or their own lust, thus acting the rôle of the malignant wizard in Hindu fiction. The tales about them, or about wicked Yogins or mendicants are legion. As a rule they come to grief in the end. See, e. g. Kathās. 24. 82 ff. ; 38. 47 ff.; 121. 6 ff.; Vetālapancavinçati 24; Çatrumjaya Māhātmyam 10. 99 ff.; Pārsvanātha 8. 139; Samarād. 4. 183 ff.; 6. 467; 7. 201 ff. ;
See Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen, p. 39, 1. 15 ff.