Book Title: Aspects of Brahmanical Influence On Jaina Mythology
Author(s): Shaktidhar Jha
Publisher: Bharat Bharti Bhandar

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________________ The Hari-Dynasty 155 as husband and wife in Harpura, and while sporting on the Rukinaguri in the southern row of the Bhogabhūmi, they were carried off to Bharatalo by that unnamed god. The work says, like VPC, "as he, together with his wife, was brought from the land of Hari, so he got famous as Harı all over the world."11 This Hari, as both the accounts state, was the progenitor of the Hartvamsa. The above account of the origin of the Harı dynasty as well as its genealogy recurs in JHV in a developed form The account is also at variance with the previous two on some important points Sumukha, for instance, is said to have been born as a son of one Pavanagiri, a Vidyadhara king of Haripura Vijayārdha 12 Vanamālā, according to the work, is born as a daughter of one Pavanavega of Meghapura on the same mount. 18 Next, they14 were united in wedlock, and one day, while enjoying the youthful pleasures of their conjugal life in the garden of Harivarşa, they were lilted away to Campalt by the same god. There that Vidyadhara prince was installed as a king of the land whose ruler Amtadidhıtıkırtı had died sonless Jinasena, however, does not make this Vidyādhara the founder of the Harivamsa, but his son whom the author gives the name Harz18. Now, it is obvious that the above representation of Sumukha's reincarnation as a Vidyadhara gives the line a colour of Supernatural origin and invests the father of the line with superhuman character. Gunabhadra's account?? of the later birth of Sumukha and 10 Ravişena docs not refer to Campā, nor to the kingdom which all the later Purānas mention as having been offered to him Sce below ll. यतोऽसौ हरित क्षेत्रादानीतो भार्यया समम् । ततो हरिरिति ख्याति गत सर्वत्र विष्टपे ।। RPC 21 7. 12 JHV 16 17-23 13 Ibid 16 25-27 14 No menuon is made of their names 18 Capital of Anga, idcnuficd as Bliagalpur AIHT, p 272 LAI, P 275 16 JHV 16 67-68 17. UP 70 06-90

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