Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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and tortured and then led to their execution through the city-streets, i some are impaled and then mutilated and hanged on trees, some are bound fast and hurled down from a precipice, others are trampled to death by elephants and their limbs are cut off, ! some are imprisoned for life, and when dead are thrown into the ditch')
Chap 4 - Sexuality is the cause of mutual strife, loss of wealth, kinsmen, character and health, it is also the cause of many wars of the past and ends in torments in hell etc The wars referred to are said to be those fought over Sitā, Draupadi, Rukmini, Padma vati, Tārā, Kāñcanā, Rakta-subhadrā, Ahalya 7), "Suvarna-gulikā Kinnari, Surūpa-Vidyuninati, and Rohini
As regards these wars, those fought over Sitā and Tāra (wife of the monkey-brothers Vāli and Sugriva) are narrated in Trisastio, 7th Parvan (the fight over Tārā is described in the 6th Sarga) The Draupadi story is narrated in Nāyā XVI and Trisaştı°, 8th Parvan, 10th Sarga Leumann compared the Jaina version of this story with the Mahābhārata_account") The war caused by the carrying away of Rukmini and Padmāvati by Krsna is described in Trisastı°, 8th Parvan, (ith Sarga) The stories on Kāñcanā, Ahıllıkā, Kinnari and Surūpa-Vidyunmati, says Abh, are not known But, as indicated above, Ahıllıyā is supposed to be Ahalyā It was Weber (Sitzungsberichte der Preuß Akad d Wiss 1887) who identified her with Indra s mistress (see_Mahābhārata, XII 342) The war caused by the abduction by Arjuna of Subhadrā (called Rakta-subhadrā here because, says Abh, she fell in love, rahtā iti, with Arjuna), the sister
1) Further information in Jaina literature on details concerning the punishment of criminals has been summarised by the present writer in Cal Review April 1933, pp 92-94
2) A Abilliyā, Abh" "Ahinnikā 3) Sce Rāmāyana, Kışkındhyākānda, 9th sarga
4) Transactions of the 6th International Congress of Orientalists, Leyden, *1885, p 541 "The earlier part of the Nāyā account dealing with the previous births of Draupadi is summarised by huttemann, Die Jñata Erzahlungen, p 44 This account was summarised in English also by the present writer in Cal Review, Nov Dec 1951, p 256, where however he fell into the crror of mistaking the honorific Assulfix to the name of the monk Dhammaghosa as the feminine ässuffix, !