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 PAUMACARIYA
5. At 83.12 Kaikeyi is said to have attained liberation (siddhipayam uttamaṁ patta). At 95.26 it is said that she had ascended to some celestial abode (tiyasavimānuttamaṁ patta). In the light of the latter reference 'siddhipayam' is an interpolation. In the Jaisalamerīya and other two manuscripts the reading is 'sammottar' in place of 'siddhipayam'.
6. The preceding fact leads us to believe that a single reference in the whole work to a Svetambaramuni at 22.78 (siyambaram) is perhaps an interpolation. Even, if it be not so, the reference cannot be exclusively taken as a proof of Vimalasūri's belonging to the Svetāmbara sect.
[III] Besides that, some statements in the PCV are contradictory in themselves and some elements neither favour the Digambara nor the Svetämbara tradition.
1. It is mentioned at 105.16 that a period of 64000 years elapsed between the events of Ramayana and the Mahabharata”. At 20.81 it is mentioned that a period of eleven lakh years intervened between the advent of Munisuvratanātha and Nemi during whose tirtha-kālas Rama and Kyspa were born respectively.
2. At 20.203 Madhukaitabha and Nisumbha are mentioned as • fourth and fifth Prativāsudevas respectively but, at 5.156 they are mentioned as fifth and fourth Prativasudevas respectively.
3. At 20.44 Aranātha's birth place is mentioned as Prathamapuri i, e. Ayodhā while at 95.34 it is mentioned as Kuñjarapura i. e. Hastinapura
4. Tirthankara Mallinātha's mother is named Rakşitā (PCV, 20. 45) and the Sarala tree is associated with lord Mahāvīra (PCV, 20.50) but the Samavā (Su. 157) Ava N (386) and the TP (4.544 & 4.917) mention Prabhāvati as the mother of Mallinātha and associate the Sala tree with Lord Mahāvīra.
5. The birth time naksatra of Vāsupūjya is said to be Satabhisaj (PCV, 20.38) but, the TP mentions Visakha (4.537). The names of the celestial abodes (PCV, 20.22-25) from which the Tīrtharikaras descended into the wombs of their mothers do not agree generally with those given in the TP (4.522-25),
6. The names of the mothers of the three of the nine Baladevas (PCV, 20.196) and those of fathers and mothers of two out of nine
1. See revised edition of PCV by Prakrit Text Society, 2. In the new edition of Punyavijayaji (1968) it is more than 6 lakh years.