Atmanandji Jainacharya Janmashatabdi Smarakgranth

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Atmanand Janma Shatabdi Smarak Trust

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It would be quite intelligible that Somadeva alludes in his sūtra to a story in which somebody afraid of an elephant perished, while he held fast to a castor-shrub, in a marshy ground; the Commentator, however, has borrowed the verse from some source which was in prose or in verse; it is, however, also possible that both go back to an antho logy but there is a discrepance between the contents. The same ambiguity can be applied to this passage in the Nītiv. p. 330 (on 29,63;:
बलद्वयमध्यस्थितः शत्रुरुभयसिंहमध्यस्थितः करीव भवति सुखसाध्यः The Commentator ascribes to Sukra this śloka:
सिंहयोर्मध्ये यो हस्ती सुखसाध्यो यथा भवेत् । .
तथा सीमाधिपोऽन्येन विगृहीतो वो भवेत् ॥ Here both the authors, Somadeva and the. Tīkākāra, agree so well in the word ECAT that either they have borrowed from the same source or the Commentator has versified the prose of the Nītiv.- author. The Commentator refers once to the Brhatkatha (p. 357 on 30, 50) about a story alluded to by Somadeva of a commander-in-chief Krkalasa by name who killed some Virupaksa ( एतदवृत्तान्तं द्वाभ्यामपि बृहत्कथायां ज्ञातव्यम् ). Thus it is possible that the Commentator had at his disposal a work which is lost in its original form. But there are cases where such a suggestion becomes less probable. p. 210 on 22, 10 Somadeva enumerates the races of horses, the nine places or countries from which they come:
तर्जिका, (स्व) स्थलाणा करोखरा गाजिगाणा केकाणा पुष्टाहारा गाव्हरा सादुयारा सिन्धुपारा जात्याश्वानां नवोत्पत्तिस्थानानि ॥ The Commentator quotes from the Salihotra these verses:
तर्जिका स्वस्थलाणा सुतोखरास्थोत्तमा हयाः । गाजिगाणाः सकेकाणाः पुष्टाहाराश्च मध्यमा ॥ गाव्हरा सायाराश्च सिन्धुपारा कनीयस्थाः । अश्वानां शालिहोत्रेण जातयो नव कीर्तिताः ॥
*** 1. With Somadeva somebody perishes in fear of an elephant clinging to a castor.shrub, the symbol of weakness, while in the verse the elephant himself perishes.... ......2 The original text has been preserved with all. his violations of the Sandhi-rules.....
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