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 PAUMACARIYAM
makes his sons the kings of Takşaśīla and Puşkalavati, newly established after their names, respectively.
Satrughna? also enthrones his sons Subāhu and Śatrughāti as the kings of Mathurā and Vaidišā respectively (7.108.10). He leaves Mathura and goes to Ayodhyā. Sugrīva transfers his kingdom to Angada (son of Vali 7.108.23) and goes to Rāma. Rāma advises Vibhīşaņa to continue as the king of Lanka and advises Hanumat to live long in the world. Then Rama along with Bharata, Satrughna, the ladies of the harem and many others proceeds towards the river Sarayū on a Mahāprasthāna (7.109). Brahma appears and eulogises Rāma as an incarnation of Vişnu (7.110.8). Rāma along with his brothers enters the divine spirit of Vispu (Ibid, 12). The Vanaras and the Rkşas enter their divine abodes. Sugriva enters the solar orbit (Ibid, 21). The rest of the people attain heaven (tridivam 7.110.25). Rāma's age is mentioned to be 11000 years (7.104 12). Except Sita' no other wife of Rāma is referred to.
The interpolated Lavakuśakānda of the TR agrees in its essentials with the VR
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According to Brahmapurana (ch 154) Rāma remembers of Sita and proceeds to the river Godavari for observing penances.
The Ananda Rāmāyana though does not mention many wives of Rama but there are references to many married women who want to establish sexual relations with Rama. Rāma declines their proposal and promises to marry them in his next birth, when he would be born as Krşņa. Here Rāma tells that he will have 16000 wives in his future life (7.4.21-47), Four Brahmin girls who were kidnapped by Dundubhi and other 16000 women request for marriage (7.11.52-73 and 7.12), but Rāma declines to marry them now, with the same promise for future.
According to the Naradapurāna (Pū. ch. 79) and the Padmapurana (Pata, ch, 100) Vibhisana is imprisoned by the Dravadia ns. Rāma gets him released (Bulcke, p. 415). The Ananda Rāmāyana mentions that when Vibhîşana is defeated by the grandson of Kumbhakarna. Rāma goes to Lařka and restores Larkā to Vibhişaņa after defeating the grandsons of Kumbhakarņa (7.4.80-85). According to Rāma Kiyena, Rāvana's son imprisons Vibhīşana. Bharata and Satrughna get him
1. The PCV does not refer to any son of satrughna. 2. In the southern version Manthara refers to many would-be wives of
Rāma, VRTP.