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
made the chief queen. Distressed Vírasena became a monk and was reborn as a celestial being. Once the case of a 'paradărika' or adultery was instituted in the court. Madhu sought advice of Candrābhā. She said that the adulterer should be worshipped. It was a slur on the character of the king himself. The king realised his sin and renounced the world along with his brother, Kaitabha. Candrābhā also accepted nunhood. After performing severe penances Madhu and Kaitabha ascended to the Acyuta Kalpa and became Indra and Prati-Indra respectively. Candrabha also became a goddess.
The PCR (109.35-173) and the RPS (p. 192f) mention the name of the sons of Samudra and Dhāriņi of Ayodhyā (Sak eta) as Purnabhadra and Kañcanabhadra ( 109-130 ). They further mention Nyagrodhanagara for Vadanagara. The Vasudevahindi (I. pp. 85-91) mentions them in their previous births as jackals; as Agnibhūti and Vayubhūti; as celestial beings; as sons of Arhaddása, a merchant of Gajapura and Puşpaśrī named as Pūrņabhadra and Manibhadra; and then as Madhu and Kaitabha being the sons of king Visvasena and Surupā of Gajapura. The king of Vadapura is named as Kanakaratha. Madhu and Kaițabha are said to have become Indras in the Mahāśukra Vimāna. The story agrees with that of the PCV. The HVP of Jinasena (ch. 43.99-218) contains this story which agrees with that of the PCR and mentions Purnabhadra and Manibhadra as the sons of Samudradatta and Dhāriņi of Ayodhyā. The wife of Hemanābha is mentioned to be Dharavati. After descending from Āranācyuta Kalpa, Madhu and Kaitabha were reborn as Pradyumna und Samba, being the sons of Kșşņa begot on Rukmiņi and Jámbavati respectively,
In the Uttarapurāņa of Guņabhadra (72. 1-48) their previous births in the form of jackals are not found. Agnibhūti and Vāyubhūti were defeated by a monk in a theological dispute. Pürņabhadra and Mapibhadra's parents are mentioned as merchant Arhadāsa and Vapraśrī of Ayodhya in place of Samudradatta and Dhāriņī of the PCV. Madhu and Kridava are the sons of king Arhadāsa and Kāśyapă of Hastinapura. When Madhu was enthroned, lord Kanakaratha of Amalakakanthanagara along with his wife Kanakamāla visited Madhu. At that time Kanakamala was kidnapped by Madhu On having once listened to a religious discourse Madhu reproached his own behaviour and repenting over his own misdeeds became a monk along with Kridava. Both were reborn as Indras of Mahāśukra. Further they were reborn as Pradyumna and Śāmbhava, sons of Rukmiņi and Jambavati respectively. The MP (91. 1-6) agrees with the UP. It names Amalakakanthanagara (92. 5. 8-9) of the UP as Aparakaṁpapura or Amarakalpapura (91. 6. 2).