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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runs away and leads him into adventure. Thus explicitly Jātaka 546 (Fausböll, vol. vi, p. 408 bottom). Pārçva 3. 500 uses for inverse training the expression vāiparītyena çikṣita; in 4. 25, pratipaçikşitva. In Devendra's Māhārāştri stories the same idea is expressed by vivarīyasikkha = viparītaçikşa; see Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen, p. 20, 1. 21; p. 45, 1. 6; p. 48, 1. 27; p. 84, 1. 12. The same sort of horse figures in Kathākoça, p. 102, and in Prabandhacintāmạņi, p. 286, where the word, according to Tawney's reading in the Translation of that text, is viparyastābhyasta. See also the story in Lakşmivallabha's commentary on Uttarādhyayana Sūtra, quoted without citation of place by Charpentier, Paccekabuddhageschichten, p. 126. An elefant trained in a similar manner is mentioned in Jātaka 231. Otherwise runaway horses in general carry heroes into adventure: Kathāsaritsāgara 5. 80; 18. 88; 32. 106; 94. 13; Dacakumāracarita i, pp. 4, 5; Kathākoça, pp. 22, 23, 31; Pärçvanātha Caritra 6. 877, 896; Kathāprakāça, in Gurupūjākāumudi, p. 122. A runaway elefant in Jacobi, 1. c., p. 35, 1. 2. Related with this is the magic horse that carries to a great distance; see Gray's Translation of Vāsavadattā, p. 117 with note.
Additional note 27, to p. 100: Human sacrifices. Human sacrifices appear in fiction in a variety of aspects, two of which are quite standard or stenciled. First, the wild folk of the mountains especially of the Vindhya range, namely, the Çavaras, Bhillas, Pulindas, Tājikas, etc., are in the habit of offering up men to Durgā (Caņdikā, Bhavāni) in the ordinary routine of their lives. Usually their chieftains, bearing ferocious names (e. g. Sinhadanątra, Kathās. 56. 22), instigate the sacrifice. Thus, Kathās. 10. 141, 189; 22. 64; 55. 220; 61. 158; 101. 300. Occasionally they have in view some particular end; see Pārçvanātha 8. 101; Samarād. 6. 91. Similarly, in Dhammapada Commentary 8. 9, thieves desire to make a votive offering of a man's flesh and blood to the forest divinity (cf. ibid. 8. 3). A cobra has to be propitiated by a human offering in Parker, Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, vol. I, p. 58. Secondly, wicked Kāpālikas, worshippers of Çiva of the left hand, or wicked demons, need human sacrifices for magic practices, usually in order to obtain some vidyā, or Science' which confers supernatural power: Kathās. 38. 59; Vetālapañca