Indological Studies

SR No.: 022756
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: Parshva Prakashan
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Literary and Performing Arts
of the Jain Dhavalas in Gujarati and Rajasthani literatures. Besides reproducing Hemacandra's definitions and illustrations of various types of Dhavalas, he has noted several Old Gujarati-Rajasthani Dhavalas composed from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, e.g. Jinapati-sūri-dhavala, Antaranga-vivāha-dhao, Kayavannā-dhao, Neminātha-dha', Ardra-kumāra-dhao, Rşabhadeva-dhavala-bandharivāhalo, Sāntinātha-vivāhalo. He has also noted Dhauls like those relating to Uņā and Sāvitri currently sung on ceremonial occasions among the the Srimāli Brahmin community of Rajasthan. We may add that there are numerous other Early Gujarati Dhavala poems not noted by Nahta.
In several of his writings, K. Paramar has given an account of the various aspects of the Dho! as it is current today in the general culture and folk-traditions of Gujarat, and he has published several collections of Dhols especially from the Saurashtra region!2. The scope of the application of the term Dho! (as compared with the carlier Dhavala) has become considerably extended so as to include Purāņic and even social themes, and the lines of distinction between Pad, Bhajan, Garbi and Dhol have become blurred*.
Abbreviations
Ch. =
CHk. = Chś. -
Hemacandra, Chandoʻnuśāsana, ed. H. D. Velankar. Bombay, 1961 (SJS 49). Chandaḥkandali (known only from references in KD., q.v.). Rājasekhara, Chandaḥśekhara, in Svayambhūcchandas, ed. H. D. Velankar, Bombay, 1962, pp. 129-139. Kavidarpaņa, ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur, 1962 Svayambhū, Srarambhūcchandas, ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur, 1962. Virahārka, Vịttajatisamuccaya, ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur, 1962
KD. = Sch. =
VJS =
* Paper read in the “Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IVeme Section at the invitation of Prof. Ch. Vaudeville (10. 05. 88).