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
by the local people. Gunanidhi left that place. The people then took Mşdumati as Gunanidhi and praised him exceedingly. But Mşdumati did never try to unfold the truth and stayed there practising deceit. After his death he also ascended to the Brahmottara Kalpa. From there Mşdumati was reborn as an elephant on account of his ‘māyā' while the other celestial being was reborn as Bharata, i. e. Candrodaya or Vinoda became elephant while Sūrodaya or Ramaņa was reborn as Bharata,
The PCR (85.28-173) names Harimati as Haripati and his wife Prahladanā as Manolutā. Here Kulaikara and Srutirata both are killed by Śrīdāmā and both are mentioned to have trasmigrated together through the lives of rabbits, frogs, rats, (the latter two births being additions to those of the PCV) peacocks, snakes and stags (instead of the osprey of the PCV) and thereafter they were reborn as a frog and an elephant respectively. Here the frog regained life after the rainy season and then was reborn as a cock. The cock is reborn as a fish and the cat as a crocodile. It mentions the names of the parents of Vinoda and Ramana. Sakha is here named as Samidhā. Vinoda is reborn as a he-buffalo while Ramana as a bear (and not both as buffaloes) and thereafter as bears. After being born as hunters they are reborn as stags for one time only. Vibhu of the PCV is named as Abhirāma. Thereafter the story is identical with that of the PCV. In the PCR Candrodaya is reborn first as Ramana and thereafter as Bharata while Sūryodaya as Vinoda and then as elephant,
The PCS (79.13.9) merely says that the previous births of Bharata and the elephants were narrated to Rāma, but no details are given.
The TSP (IV. p. 304) does not refer to the account of Marici. It mentions Candrodaya and Sūryodaya as the sons of two different kings, Prahlādana and Suprabha. It gives the name of the mother of Kulankara as Candralekhā. The grandfather of Kulankara is named Kşemalikara. The intervening rebirths of Kulankara and Srutirati up to their being reborn as Ramana and Vinoda are dropped. (Here it follows the PCR). It mentions that Sakhā had addressed Ramaņa considering him to be
1. The PCR has corrected the mistake of the PCV because Suryodaya should
remain, throughout his various rebirths, wicked and deceitful to acquire the Karma of getting reborn as an animal. This point is missed in the PCV at the time of describing the rebirths of a cock and a cat.