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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INTERVENING STORIES
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immortality and undisturbed devotion to righteousness. Kumbhakarna was deluded by Sarasvati on the advice of Brahma who was requested by the Gods to do so to get him rid of his habit of devouring men and gods. Therefore, according to his demand Kumbhakarna was granted the boon of remaining in slumber for years together (7.10.45). But at 6.61.27 it is said that at the request of Ravana the boon was modified to six months' duration.
After having obtained these boons they went away to Śleṣmātaka forest and lived there (7.10.49). Thereafter Sumalin encouraged Daśagrīva to recapture their ancestral Lanka. First Dasagrīva declined to fight with his stepbrother but at the counsel of Prahasta he decided to restore Lanka to his own family (7.11.20).
The TR mentions that Daśaśīṣa neglected to demand immortality from the Vanaras and the Manujas. Kumbhakarna was favoured with six months' slumber (1.177). The cause of performing penance is not referred to. The deluding of the mind of Kumbhakarna by Sarasvati is mentioned.
According to the Rāmopakhyāna, with an envy to equal Vaiśravana, they performed penances. Ravana was granted immunity from all but human beings. Kumbhakarna was favoured with Mahātinidrā (3.275).
The PCR (7. 324) agrees with the PCV. It has changed the names of some of the vidyas and added two more vidyas to the credit of Rāvana. In the PCS (9.12) some of the vidyas differ from those of the PCV and the PCR. According to the RPS (p. 29) Kekasī once observed Kubera's splendour and then wept. On enquiry from Rāvaṇa she narrated the history of Lanka. The TSP agrees with the PCR and mentions a few more vidyas (IV. p. 122). According to the VH, Ravana acquired Prajñapti-vidya and that also after occupying Laikā.
(vi) Marriage of Ravana and his progeny:-According to the PCV Vidyadhara Maya, the lord of Surasangītapura married his daughter, Mandodari begot on Hemavati, to Daśagrīva (8.21). Further Ravana is said to have wedded many Vidyadhara girls by the way of the Gandharva (8.38) and the Rākṣasa forms of
marriage. (6.51).
Kumbhakarna married Taḍitmālā, the daughter of Surupanayana and Mahodara of Kumbhapura while Vibhīṣaņa was wedded to Pankajasadṛśa, the daughter of Nandavati and Viśuddhakamala of Jyotiprabhapura.