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The Sources of Vadibhasimha's Gadya-cintamani
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9) The UP, the MP and the SP refer to two more queens of Satyandhara, Bhāmārati (Pāramarati in the SP) and Anangapatākā ("Ananka patakai' in the SP) and their respective sons, Madhura (Maturan' in the SP) and Bakula ("Vakulan in the SP); but the names of the queens in the MP are slightly different, Rai and Mayagapadāyā.71 The CC, the GC and the KC drop this detail. These two boys were being reared up by Gandhotkata, along with Jivandhara and other boys.
10) The UP, the MP and the SP enumerate as the chief companions of Jfvandhara the following: Madhura ('Maturan' in the SP), Bakula ("Vakulan' in the SP); Devasena ('Tevacenan' in the SP), Buddhişeņa (“Putticenan, in the SP), Varadatta (“Varadattan' in the SP), Madhumukha (Matumukan' in the SP), and Nandadhya (Nantattiyan' in the SP) 72 The UP and the SP mention that Jivandhara lived among these boys during his childhood.73 According to the CC, the chief compa: nions of Civakañ are Nantattaņ, Patumukaņ, Putticenaḥ, Napulań, Vipulan Tevatattan and Citattañ.74 Vādıbhasimha here seems to add, in both the GC and the KC, that while Gandhotkata gave a reception in honour of the birth of Jivandhara; the ignorant Kästhāngāra thought that it was given in honour of his having obtained the kingdom, and made over the treasure of Satyandhara to Gandhotkata and ordered that the children born at that time should be reared together at the house of the merchant.76
11) The UP narrates an incident that while once Jivandhara was playing with his companions, a mendicant asked him as to how far the city was from the place. Jivandhara called him ignorant since he could not surmise that it could not be far off in view of the children playing there. The mendicant concluded on the basis of the intelligent reply that the boy was a royal child, and requested him to offer him some food. Jivandhara took him home and with the due permission of Gandhotkata fed the mendicant. When both were eating, Jivandhara began to cry. At the question from the medicant about the reason for weeping Jivaka enumerated the benefits of weeping! Impressed by this incident, the mendicant introduced himself to the merchant as the ex king Āryavarman of Sidhapura, who had been initiated into the Jaina monastic order by Muni Varanandi, and that he was moving in the guise of the mendicant since he was suffering from the disease of morbid apetic from over-digestion (bhasmaka). Then Gandhotkața entrusts the boy to him for proper education.76 The CC, the GC and the KC narrate this part differently and the teacher tells this to Jivandhara after his education is over. The Teacher's name is given as Āryanandi ('Accapanti' in the CC) who was once the king Lokapāla ("Ulokapālan' in the CC) in the Vidyadhara region.
From the points of comparision and contrast discussed above by way of a few noteworthy specimens, it emerges that out of the UP and the MP, the GC and KC and the CC, the latter three have greater affinity with each other than with the former two. And Vādıbhasimha, being later than Gunabhadra, undoubtedly had the know
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