Tulsi Prajna 1995 10

SR No.: 524585
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 174
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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TULSI-PRAJNA undoubtedly not the description of a ruler's capital and palace. Bana calls that place the image of all hells”. Is it conceivable that a real princes lived in that "image of all hells”?
It is difficult to understand why Ambedkar wasted so much space to prove that were no untouchables in the days of Bana and the Chandalas had not become untouchables. To me it seems to be of no use. Evidently he did not care to see the conclusions his own thesis leads to. If we concede to his logic that there was not untouchability when Bana wrote his Kadambari about 600 A.D. but untouchability had come about all over country after 629 A.D. when Yuan chwang came to India, we must conclude that untouchability emerged during the reign of Harşavardhana (606-647 A.D). But Ambedkar was not willing to say that. So he says "with some confidence that untouchability was born sometime about 400 AD'. If that is what we have to conclude ultimately, what is the use of so much argument aimed at proving that the Chandala girl in the Kadambari was not untouchable ? Madraraksasa
Vishakhadatta, the dramatist lived before Baña. According to well-known scholars like Talang. K.H. Dhuva, Macdonall, Winternitz etc., he composed the 'Mudraraksasa' during the reign of Avantivarman, the Maukhari ruler of Kanoui. Avantivarman's son, Grahavarman married Rajya shrī, the sister of Bana's petron Harsavardhana. Vishakhadatta was not a Irahmana, but a Ksatriya In the seventh act of his drama, the words Chandala' and Shva paka' are used interchangcably and the caste mentioned by the two words is deemed untouchable. A reference to the contest will clarify the point. Chanakya had destroyed the Nandas and installed Chandragupta Maurya to power but Raksasa, the minister of the Maurya was still alive and helping Malayaketu, the rival of Chandragupta. Chanakya man outsed to arouse suspicion in the mind of Malaya. ketu and succeeded in driving Raksasa away from him. Chandana. dasa, a friend of Raksasa was inprisoned and Chanakya knew that Raksasa would risk even his own life to save his friend. So two spies were asked to dress themselves as Chandalas and to take Chandana tasa away apparently for rescution. One of the 'Chadalas' went forward to the rescution ground shouting “a side gentlemen ! aside bonourable ones!! and the other followed him with Chandanadasa. Raksasa came to the rescue of his friend as anticipated and surrendered himself to the Chandalas (Chandanadasa was imprisonod and sentenced to death apparently for sheltering the