Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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andhayāra-gambhire, vasu-vasuha-vikampita vya paccakkha-piuvanam parama-rudda-bihanagam duppavesataragam ativayanti
samgama-samkadam para-dhanam mahantā Our author also appears to be familiar with the sea, for he has two long descriptions of it One of them occurs in connection with the description of pirates (p 45a) and the other in section E of this chapter (p.456) The latter, as has already been pointed out, is drawn largely from Uva § 32 and the former also has several phrases of Uva $ 32 fitted into it.
Chap.4 Sexual intercourse is indulged in by the gods along with the apsarases, by the ten kinds of Bhavanavāsin gods), by another class of eight heavenly beings, viz, Anavanniya, Panavanniya etc.), by the eight classes of Vyantara-gods"), it is also indulged in by tiriya-joisa-vimānavāsı-manuya-ganā‘) Sexuality is also indulged in by creatures of land, water and air, as well as by powertul cakhavattis“), by the Baladevas and Vasudevas), by māndaIstra-kings, by those men who dwell at the foot of the woods and cares in Uttarakuru and Devakuru and by their women-folk, long descriptions of the physical feature of these men and women are given.
Of mythological interest are the lists of vara-pursa-lakkhanas
1) See Tat Sūt. Ir 11.
2) These are described by Abh as vantara-nikāyānām uparivartuah by antaras jātisviseşāh, see Schubring, Lehred J , P 139, and Kufel, Die !Kosmographie der Inder, p 275
3) See Tat Sūt iv 12
4) This means a priori, though in an unusual order, the animal world, the Jyotiska and the Vimanavāsın gods, and men' When by tinya joisas vimānasvāsi Abh understands tiryag-lobe yānı jyotiskasvimānāns, teşu arvas santi se te tathā jyotiskāh, he is right in so far as tiriya characterises the JOISS - ie the sun, moon, and stars - as belonging to the Middle World The animals cannot have been meant by tnya, for they follow immediately after The author wishes to sum up men and manslıke gods CE. P 93 b - tiriyasvāsi pañcavihã joisiyā deva = the sun, moon, tārā, gaha and nakkhatta.
5) They are powerful kings who rule in inaccessible quarters of the earth, see v Glasenapp, Jainismus, p. 255 ff.
6 They are viras who appear simultaneously and altogether nine times during a world period, seer Glasenapp, Jainismus, o 258