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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İNTERVENING STORIES
133 The Ramopakhyāna (3. 275. 40) states that Daśagriva made the worlds weep, hence he was called Rāvana (rāvayāmasa lokānyattasmādrāvana ucyate).
The PCR mentions that Mandodarī requested monk Vali to rescue Rāvana (9.157). The PCS refers to a personal combat and the humiliation of Rāvana at his being lifted up by Váli (12. 10) before the latter's renunciation of the world. Otherwise it follows the PCR. The RPS follows the PCR and further mentions that Rāvana assumed the form of Indra and raised the mountain with his one lac arms (p. 38). The TSP mentions a battle between the soldiers only. In the combat Vali first seizes Rāvana (IV. p 131), then releases him and thereafter he renounces the world.
According to the Ananda Rāmāyana, Rāvana prepares a lute with various parts of his body, using the sinews of his body as strings and pleases Śiva who offers him Párvati to be his wife (1.13.28f).
(xi) Rāvana's conquest-expedition:-According to the PCV, thereafter Rāvaņa conquers the Khecara chief of various islands and encamps at Pātālańkārapura. Here Kharadūşaņa greets Rāvana and shows him army of 14000 soldiers (10.19).
According to the VR, Rāvana after killing Kalakeya Dānavendra Vidyujjihva returns to Larkā. Śūrpanakhā bewails the death of her husband. Rāvana consoles her and sends her along with Khara who is equipped with a battalion of 14000 Rākşasas to occupy the Dandakavana (7.24.36).
(xii) Defeat of Sahasrakirana, the Māheśvara king:-Further, according to the PCV, Rāvaņa encamps on the Vindhya hills, on his expedition to conquer Indra. There he performs a worship of the Jaina idol placing it on the dune of the bed of Narmadā. Suddenly a gush of water which was first pooled over by some mechcnical devices and then released by Sahasrakirana, the king of Māheśvaranagara, who was playing watersports with the members of his harem in the river, disturbs Rāvana's worship. Enraged Rāvana imprisons Sahasrakirana. Muni Satabāhu, the father of the prisoner gets his son released. Thereafter Sahasrakirana becomes a monk. When Anaranya of Ayodhyā learns it he also renounces the world (10.25-88).
According to the VR, Rāvana goes to Mahişmatipuri to subdue Arjuna Kārtavīrya. The latter is playing watersports in the river Narmada by preventing the flow of the water with his one thousand arms (bāhūņāṁ sahasrasya 7. 32. 4). He suddenly releases