Aspects of Brahmanical Influence On Jaina Mythology

Author(s): Shaktidhar Jha
Publisher: Bharat Bharti Bhandar

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Aspects of Brahmanıcal Influence on the Faina Mythology
as are conveyed by those in the Szśupālavadha of Māgha For instance, reference may be made to those passages in Siśupālavadha36 and MP 36 which reflect common reactions during the descent of Närada from the sky and that of Kitamāla, a god living at the mount Vijayārdha
To cite one more case, the idea expressed with regard to the working of the favourably disposed Fate bears remarkable likeness with that set forth in the Ratnával737 almost in similar phrases
The foregoing pages would thus present a clear background for our principal topic of investigation, for, laying bare the verbal and other incidental or contextual agreements between the works of both the traditions is beyond the scope and purpose of the present survey. Such a study, of course, will form an independent work in itself Nevertheless, we propose to append in the sequel, some parallel passages glcaned from different sources, particularly from the Kādambarī of Bāna and the Caupannamahāpurisacariya of Silānka 38 35. “गत तिरश्चीनमनूरुसारथे प्रसिद्धमूर्ध्वज्वलन हविर्भुज ।
विशत्यघो धाम विसारि सर्वत किमेतदित्याकुलमीक्षित जनं. ॥ चयस्त्विपामित्यवधारित पुरा तत शरीरीति विभाविताकृतिम् ।। विभुविभक्तावयव पुमानिति क्रमादमु नारद इत्यवोधि स॥"
-Sisupalavadha, 1 2-3 36 दिव्य प्रभान्वय कोऽपि सम्मूच्छंति किमम्बरे ।
तडित्पुञ्ज किमयचिरिति दृष्ट क्षण जनः ।। किमप्येतदधिज्योतिरित्यादावविशेषत । पश्चादवयवव्यक्त्या प्रव्यक्तपुरुषाकृति ॥ कृतमालश्रुतिव्यक्त्यं कृतमाल स चम्पकै । कृतमाल इवोत्फुल्लो निदच्ये प्रभुणाऽग्रत ॥
--MP 31 92-94 37 (a) द्वीपादन्यस्मादपि मध्यादपि जलनिवेदिगोऽप्यन्तात् । पानीय झटिति घटयति विधिरभिमतमभिमुखीभूत ॥
-Ratnāvalt,16 (b) द्वीपान्तराहिशामन्तादन्तरीपादपानिधे ।
विषिर्घटयतीटार्यमानीयान्वीपता गत ॥ 38. See also chapter I