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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SOURCES, CONTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCE OF PCV.
wasp while searching for Sită in Lankā (VR-as a cat). 26. Handing over of Rama's ring to Sītā by Aņumān in the disguise of a monkey. 27. Anuman conjures up an army of monkeys and destroys the garden. 28. Rāvana's sister is called Surpanakha. 29. Slaying of Vali by Laksmana (VR-by Rama ). 30. Disturbance by Vidyadharas and ceasing of the Vidyas to obey Ravana. 31. Conjuring up of illusory severed head of Sita 31. Molesting of Manimati by Ravana and her curse as the cause of the death of Ravana (VR-Vedavati's molestation). 33. Aņumān, the son of Añjana struck the aerial-car of the sun (VR-Hanu wanted to catch the sun).
Points peculiar to Uttarapurāņa:
34. Dasaratha's first wife named as Subālā. 35. No boon granted to the mother of Bharata. 36. Janaka's wife's name Vasudhadevi, no reference to the brother or son of Janaka. 37. No betrothal of Sită with Rama, No 'svayamvara' and the Bow. She was married to Rāma because he protected the Yajña of Janaka. 38, Rāma and Lakṣmana were appointed as the king and heir-apparent of Banarasa respectively. 39. No exile of Rama. No Journey of Rama. 40. No disfiguring of Śambuka. 41. Once Rama sojourned in the Citrakūta garden. 42. Nārada instigated Rāvana to kidnap Sītā. Rāvaņa wanted to put an end to the rising glory of Rama and he was angry also because he was not invited by Janaka on the occasions of performing a Yajña and the marriage of Sītā. 43. Surpanakha was sent to ascertain the wishes of Sītā. 44. No Jatayu. 45. Dasaratha's drean.s indicated that Rāvana kidnapped Sită, 46. Mandodari's sympathy and her advice to Sită refrained her from yielding to Rāvaņa. 47. Hanuman is called Aņuman (his father's name is Prabhañjana). 48. On the advice of Nārada, Aņumān and Sugrīva went to help Rāma. 49. Vāli's offer to help Rāma, Vali's challenge for a battle and then his killing by Lakṣmaṇa. 50. Mandodari's motherly love for Sītā. 51. Sita's sons named as Vijayarāma and Ajitañjaya. 52. No detailed ancestral history of Ravana. 53. There is no story of Añjanasundarī. 54. The son of Añjana by Prabhañjana was named Aņumān because he once assumed the form like a particle of sand (aņu).
As regards the intervening stories of the PCV which are found in the UP, their sources are different, not the PCV while the stories of Hariṣena (No. 11), and 'Origin of Brahmaņas' (No. 16) are specially at variance with those of the PCV (See Supra, Ch. 4).
There is one striking similarity between the PCV and the UP in the description of the water-sports of Rama and Sītā. The PCV is the