Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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nara-vai nar'ınde nara-vasabhe manuya-rāya-vasabha-kappe abbhahıyam rāya-teya-lacchie dippamāne etc in Uva § 50
In the same connection (p 726) occurs a description of the umbrella and yak-tail of powerful kings which, subject to the addition of a few words here and the dropping or alteration of some words there, is taken in its entirety from Uva § 48 A few lines lower down tirida-dhāri kundala-ujjoviy'ānanā occurring in a series of compounds describing the kings, are taken from Uva § 37 (also Nāyā p 19b) A physical description of the inhabitants of Uttarakuru and Devakuru reproduces (p 78a-) the long details of the description of Mahāvira in Uva. § 16 with slight alterations here and there but with this difference that while Uva sets out the description from the head downward), our text describes it from the feet upward It is also noteworthy that a description employed by Uva in respect of Mahāvīra and parts of which are sometimes used in describing Goyama and the other great ascetics, should be attributed to human beings who are mentioned in this connection by our text as living a life the very opposite of asceticism Sujāyasavv'anga-sundario, one of tne clauses used by our text in descnbing the women-folk of these people, has been clipped out of a compound in Uva § 12 Komudi-rayanikara. vimala-padipunna-soma-vayanās used in describing these women (p 795) is also taken from the same source
In section A of chap 5 we have a long compound nāna-manı etc. made up of several groups of phrases contained in three different places in Uva
In section C and D of chap 5 (p 93b) there is an enumeration of planets and stars as being among those given to possess
in Uva $ 362) It will be observed from the nature of the indebtedness of our text to other texts that it is considerably younger than Süya and the older texts contemporaneous with it The fact that it not only
1) CE Schubring. Die Lehre d J, p 145, 1 1
2) Weber, Ind Stud XVI p 333, pointed out that this enumeration is not in the Greek order