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 The PCR (8.281-400) agrees with the PCV and mentions that the chariot was to be moved out on the Aştānhikaparva. The PCS (11.2) gives a brief account of his exploits within a period of eight successive days. The RPS (p.33) agrees with the PCR, The TSP (IV. p. 362) calls him the son of Mahāhari and Merā. He is said to have lived during the life time of Jina Nami, the twenty-first Tirthaikara. Here the account does not agree with that of the PCV. His Digvijaya and attaining the status of a Cakravartin are narrated. The UP (67.61-88) calls him the son of Padmanātha of Bhogapura and Aira. His Digvijaya is narrated but the incidents of the PCV do not find mention in it. The MP (68.9-11) agrees with the UP. Both the latter works mention him to have lived during the congregation of Munisuvratanātha, the twentieth Tirthankara and in the PCV also the story is narrated to Rāvana, hence Harişeņa was at least not born after the congregation of Munisuvratanātha.
B-Legendary Kings of the Ikşvākuvamsa. After having described the life of Munisuvratanātha and the birth of Janaka, Gautama while enumerating the kings of the Ikşvākuvamsa narrates, to Śreņika the following episodes and stories associated with the ancestors of Dasaratha (21.41 to 22.95).
12. Vairabāhu's renunciation :
During the congregation of Munisuvratanātha, Vijaya, the ruler of Sāketapuri had two sons, Vajra bāhu and Purandara begot on his wife Himacūlā. Vajrabāhu married Manoharā, the daughter of king Bāhuvāhana and Cūdāmaņi, of Nāgapura. When Vajrabāhu was returning home after his marriage, his brother-in-law, Udayasundara jokingly asked the former looking at a monk meditating on a hillock whether he intended to become a monk. At this Vajrabāhu instantly accepted asceticism. Consequently Manoharā also became a nun. When Vijaya knew of it, he enthroned Purandara and himself became a monk (21.4 p-77).
The PCR (21.73.139) agrees with the cpisode but it mentions Surendramanyu and Kīrtisamā as the parents of Vajrabāhu and Purandara. Vijaya and Hemacūlini are their grandparents. The name of the wife of Vajrabāhu is Manodayā and her father's name is Ibhavāhana. Here Udayasundara is taking back his sister along with he husband to his home town and Vijaya and Surendramanyu both renounce the world. The RPS (p.81) agrees with the PCR. It names