Critical Study Of Paumacariyam

SR No.: 022643
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K R Chandra
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 672
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Book_Devnagari
File Size: 18 MB

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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAN
Lava recite Rāmāyaṇa. There Rāma learns that they are his sons. He sends a message to Vālmiki to bring Sītā there. He further orders that Sitā should prove her purity by taking an oath (7.95). Accordingly Sita is brought there. Rāma reposes his faith in Sită but for convincing the public he asks Sītā to prove her purity. Sītā comes forward and asks the earth to give way if she is pure. The earth splits (7.97.17) and a divine throne appears, the earth-deity seated on it. The deity lists up Sītā and enters back into the earth along with Sītā. The fire ordeal of Sītā at Lanka is already mentioned.
The TR mentions two sons. The elder is Lava, not Kuśa (7.25) according to the order in which they are mentioned. The interpolated Lavakusakānda of TR refers to the ensuing of a battle between LavaKuśa and the soldiers of Rāma on account of the sacrificial horse. Both the brothers defeat Rāma's army. Sīta enters Patala.
The PCR mentions Siddhartha as a Kşullaka (100.32) and states that Hanumat also joined Lavana and Ankusa in their battle against Rāma and Laksmana (102.170). The PCS does not mention any Kșullaka. Vajrajargha introduces himself as the husband of the sister of Rāma (81.14). Saśicūlā is not mentioned. Pộthu marries his two daughters Kanakamālā and Tarangamālā to Lavana and Ankuša respectively (82.5). Candramukhi is mentioned as Candrabhāgā (86). Vibhîşaņa sends for Trijatā and Laukasundarī. They arrive at Ayodhyā and announce Sita's purity and ask Rāma to arrange an ordeal if he is not satisfied (83.4). In other respects it agrees with the PCR. The TSP follows PCV and additionally mentions the defeating of Vyāghraratha by Vajrajangha on his way to subdue Pșthu (IV. p.322). The RPS agrees with the TSP and further mentions Lavana and Ankusa marrying eight daughters of the king of Podanapura and three hundred of Kuberakānta on their way to the world-conquest. Here Hanumat is said to have joined Lava and Ankusa in their battle against Rama and Lakşmaņa (p.181).
According to the UP Rāma begets eight sons on Sītā. The eldest being Vijayarama and the youngest (68.690 and 706) Ajitañjaya. The MP agrees with it (79.8.12). Sīta accepts nunhood after the initiation of her husband (UP, 68.712; MP, 79.13) into the ascetic fold.
The test of the retrieved queen as found in the Anămakam Jataka is already referred to. Like the PCV some non-Jaina works also refer to the marriage of the two sons of Sitā.
The Raghuvaṁsa (16.54) refers to the watersports of Kuśa with his wife Kumudvatr who is the sister of a Bhujangarāja (16.86). The