Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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mahaddi (no 14, BF mahatthi) Abh does not repeat the word
(as is usual with him when he is in doubt as to the correct form of a word) but simply says mahatī iccha (but mahicchā has already been stated before as no 11) and then notes mahaddi as a variant and explains it as mah'arddih (ardı being derived from ard, 'to beg') The vernacular gloss in F says mahā rddhi which suggests the original word to have been mahaddhı or mahaddhi
This section in each chapter properly closes with the words the vi ya tassa evam-ādīni nămadhejjānı honti tīsam which, preceded by the appropriate last-named of the epithets constitutes a vedha in chaps 1, 3, and 4 (in chaps 3 and 4 evam-ādini is preceded by another word eyāni) In chaps 1~-3 honti tīsam is followed by some other words which constitute a vedha only in chap 1
The frequent occurrence of ya and tahā in this section in chaps 1-3 leads to the surmise that these sections were perhaps originally composed entirely in metrical form which however has been considerably damaged by later interpolation -- a conjecture which is strengthened by the inclusion in the earlier chaps of more than one item under several numbers (in chap 4 occur no ya or tahā and in chap 5 only one ya and one tahā)
Sections C and D - The Ways in which are committed, and those
who commit, the Five Sins These sections of chap 1 speak of the various animals that are killed, the reasons why they are killed, and those who kill them The animals are named in this order - a) aquatics, b) quadrupeds, c) reptiles
I those who walk on their breasts, and
II those who walk on their arms, d) birds, as well as four-, three-, and two-sensed beings
Then are mentioned the reasons why such lives are destroyed and the ways through which one-sensed lives are destroyed Lastly come a list of professions and of barbarian races which are given to the practice of destroying living beings The lists of the animals