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Albrecht Wezler kakud (a), they confine themselves to mentioning just two, or at the utmost three, individual ensigns, and it is perfectly understandable that they adduce by name only those which are by far the most important or best known, definitely coming to one's mind first when the concept "emblem of royalty" is mentioned, and inspite of Bharuci's testimony it is highly improbable that the bliggdra ránked among the first two or three.
Blurrgåra in Sanskrit Literature
27 Vivarana" by kanakacchatracamaradi. 1o At Viramitrodaya Vio (Rajonitiprakalu) 443.19 the expression cihnani rajno is explained by the immediately following dhvajapatakadıni.
4.2.2. Vispudharmotturapurana II. 158.4-to which attention has been drawn by 1. J. Meyer_
tatraivayudhavarmady m chatram ketum cn püjajet/
rajalingani sarvani tathastranica pojayet // might prescribe the worshipping of the abhisekapátra, too, as part of the nirjana ceremony-although in this particular case there are some doubts since the Caturvargacintamani 19 teaches mahtras for other emblems only and ignores our vessel. But bhag. P. 1.16. 4 and 5 may be quoted as an example without hesitation for the last member of the compounds hrpalingadhara' and nodevacihnadlırk is not at all indication enough that only such signs are mcant here which a king bears on himself in the narrower sense of the word,
2. In a number of cases an author may well have had ini mind the bhrigara, too, when speaking of the signs of a king but there is no way to find this out for sure.
3. The denotatum of bhrrigara or this expression itself may have been replaced by another one, expressions often met with in comparable contexts are in particular kalasa, ghara and (para) kumbha.
4. Last but not least one has to reckon with the possibility that the role of the bhr gårá as an emblem of royalty was limited in terms of its historical and/or its regional diffusion.
To give a few examples:
4. 2. 1. The explicate rajaliaga of Amarakoja 3.3.92 is in its turn made clear in tne Padacandrika' by chatiradi, and in the
am menschlichen Körper in: Acia Orientatio XX, 1948. bp. 36.86) well as in the sense of characterization, i. e, description of the king' cf. Vtromitrodeja (cf. fo. 110) XX, p. 165, Rajadharnakaustubha (cf. fn. 113) p. 243 and Nirikalpa.
tarn (ed. by V. P. Mahajan, Poona 1956), p. 177. 106. This holds good equally when individual emblems themselves are mentioned,
Likewise it should be taken into account that even if an adi or a similar expression is lacking, those ensigns which are expressly named need not be meant to form an exhaustive enumeration of the ensigns in their entirety. The verse Ja 6.22. 28-29, to which my attention has kindly been drawn by me fricod O. v. Hinuber remains difficult inspite of K. R. Norman's(cf. CPD S.. upādhil-arham) endeavours to solve the problems (cf. also 0.v Hinüber, **Two Jataka Manuscripts from the National Library in Bangkok" in:.JPTS Vol. X, 1985, 19 ff).-Cr. also Mallinatha on the passages from the Raghuv.
referred to in fos, 91 and 109. 107. Padacandrika: 1 Commentary on the Namalinganufatanam of Amara by
Rdyamukwa. ed. by K. K. Dutta, Vol. III, Calcutta 1978, p. 226.
4.2.3. The Ramayana commentator Rama 'of. $ 2.4 above) paraphrases bhrigara of R. 5.16.12 by kalata, and this latter expression is indeed very often met with in the context of passages dealing with the royal consecration. E.g. in his Viramitrodaja (VI. 42. 188.) Mitramigra starts his brief exposition of the abhiseka according to the Atharvamagopathabrahmana" by stating: bilvaprabhrtin sambharan samblurtya sodasa kalasän sodasa bilvani valmıkasya ca mritikam sarvannam sarvarasan sarvabijani / tatra catvarah sauvarnos carvaro rajatas catvaras tamrás calvaro minmayap /... And (a) golden kalata (s) is (are) mentioned in Anantadeva's Rajadharmakaustubha," in
108 Amarakofa with the Unpublished South Indian Commentaries..., ed. by A, A.
Ramanathan, Vol. II, Madras 1978. p. 352 109. Apparārya then quotes Rogh. V. 3.10 b, viz. (sac - Dilipah) sunawe) nirporikak dame
datvarane sitatopararanaml. 110. Viramitródayah Laksanaprakalah Mahamahopädlıyayosrimitromigraviracitch sähi
fyopadhyāyavişnuprasādoformaņasom sodhirah, Benares 1916. III. Trilogle alrindischer Möchte und Feste der Vegetation......Zurich-Leipzig. p. 127
(of Pt. II), fn. 2. 112. Cafterwargacintamani of Sri Hemādei, Vol. 11; Vratakhanda, PL. II. p. 619 | 113. Raladharmakaustubhd af Ananradera, ed. by M. Kamala Kr$na Smrlitirtha,
Baroda 1935, p. 316, verse 3 and 321, v. 29.
