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seq.). Jamāli is referred to in Aņutt. (ibid. p. 113) and so are Jamāli, Mahabbala (i.e. part of the Sudamsana story) and Devāṇandā in Kappav. 1, 2; Pupph. 4, 4; Pupphac. 1, 3; Vanhid. 1, 3.5.7. Sudamsana the merchant (also Antag. p. 88-91) and Somila the brahman (also Antag. p. 71-77) probably became type names.47 Part of the Somila story in Pupph. (3, 2) refers (jahā Pannattie) to Viy. XVIII 104: in the Ambasālavaṇa sanctuary near Benares the brahman Somila proposes Pārsva the same three questions which his namesake in the Viy. will propose Mv. in the Duipalāsaya sanctuary near Vāṇiyaggāma. Moreover, this Somila, having become a lay follower of Pārśva, will enter the order of the disāpokkhiyā tāvasā and perform the practices of that order (Pupph. 3, 4) exactly as does king Siva in Viy. XI 9.
In XIII 63, finally, king Udāyaṇa (often and rightly spelt Uddāyaṇa) of Sindhu-Sovira" is converted after having attended Mv.'s sermon at Viibhaya (elsewhere Vii°, Viyabhaya). 50 He was the last crowned king ordained by Mv.; cf. Thāna 430b and Avaśyaka Cūrṇi (ed. Ratlam 1928) II, 36; cf. also JACOBI, Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Mâhârâshṭrî (ed. Leipzig 1886), text III (from the Uttaradhyayana-Ṭīkā), esp. pp. 2817-24, 3235-3328 and 3411-20. However, as we do not hear anything about the topic of the preach, and as the conversion is related in the usual shorthand way by means of numerous references to other conversion stories, the real point of interest of this fragment, I
47 Cf. the AUTHOR, Nir. Introduction p. 86 seq.
48 The same questions also in Nay. 1,5 (cf. LEUMANN, Übersicht p. 10a); cf. C. CAILLAT, Deux études de moyen-indien, I. A propos de pali phāsu-vihāra-, ardhamāgadhi phāsuya-esaņijja- (Journal Asiatique 1960, pp. 41-55) and Nouvelles remarques sur les adjectifs moyen-indiens phāsu, phāsuya (ibid. 1961, pp. 497-502).
49 Sindhu-Sovira (°-Sauvīra): for different identifications cf. DEY, Geographical Dict. p. 183. According to H. RAYCHAUDHURI (Political History of India, 6th ed., Calcutta 1953, pp. 507 and 619 seqq.) Sindhu-Sauvira is 'the Lower Indus Valley', Sindhu being the name of 'the inland portion lying to the west of the Indus' while 'Sauvira includes the littoral' as well as 'the inland portion lying to the east of the Indus as far as Multān'.
50 Viyabhaya (Vitabhaya): mod. Bhera on the left bank of the river Jhelum in the district of Shahpur in the Punjab (JAIN, Life p. 356 and p. 302 s.v. Kumbharapakkheva); see Bhera QIM 43 D/15/4 (T.I., p. 209).
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