Tale of Elephant Driver in Avashyaka Version

SR No.: 211146
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Edhild Maite
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Publication Year: 1980
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4. The oldest parallel preserved in Indian literature is contained in Pali
jätaka no. 62 (see below). Another early buddhist version is preserved in chinese translation in TAISHO 206 (cf. E. CHAVANNES, Cinq cents contes et alpogues extraits du Tripitaka chinois, Paris 1910-1934, vol. 1, p. 387, no. 116). The 15th tale of the Sukasaptati (ed. RICHARD SCHMIDT, Leipzig 1893) comes closest to Hemacandra's version.
5. As the closest parallel to this part of the story HERTEL has shown Sukasaptati textus simplicior 9, textus ornatior (ed. R. SCHMIDT, Muenchen 1898).
6. The well-trained elephant is the theme of Pali jätaka no. 122.
7. Cf. Pali jātaka no. 318: A courtesan lets her lover been hanged in exchange for a robber to whom she suddenly feels affection (see below).
To part V and VI corresponds Pali jätaka no. 374 and in later literature Palcatantra textus simplicior (Jaina Pañcatantra) IV 10 (11); textus ornatior IV 8.
9. Acarya Nemicandra's Akhyanaka manikosa with acarya Amradeva's Commentary ed. by Muni Shri Punyavijaya, Benares 1962, p. 188-191. 10. Cf. JACOBI, Parisistaparvan p. VII seq.
11. Cf. WALTHER SCHUBRING, Doctrine of the Jainas (English transl. 1962) § 86, p. 179: Extinction or consumption of karman so far as it is not brought about by ascetic methods is called akāmanirjară (cl. Aupapătikasutra § 65, p. 61, ed. LEUMANN).
12. JACOBI, Partéistaparvan p. VII and ERNST LEUMANN, Uebersicht uber die Avasyaka-Literatur, Hamburg 1934, p. 28 b, assumed the date of about 80 A. D. for composition of the collection of niryuktis.
13. These two verses are quoted as vv 10 and 12 in the Nupurapandita version of the Akhyānakamaṇikosavṛtti. Vv. 5 and 7 of the Avasyaka text are recognizable in the aryas 62 and 89 of that version
14. Cf. L. ALSDORF, Itthiparinna, Indo-Iranian Journal 2, 1958, 250= Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden 1974, p. 194.
15. Cf. L. ALSDORF, Die Arya-Strophen des Pali-Kanons, Abh. Mainzer Akademie, Geistes-und Sozialwiss. KI, 1967, 4; especially p. 18. In this article ALSDORF presents a detailed description of the arya meter. Our stanza is built exactly to the normal pattern.
16. Cf. J. J. MEYER, 1. c. (supra, note 2). For further literature see The Types of Folktale, A Classification and Bibliography, Anti Aarne's Verzeichnis der Maerchentypen, transl. enlarg. by STITH THOMPSON, FF Communications Vol. 75, No. 184, Helsinki 1973, p. 417 seq. no. 1418 (The equivocal oath). For the reference to this literature I thank LASZLO VAJDA.
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