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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAN
was reborn as Simhaketu in the house of king Prabhasjana of Hari Vamsa and queen Mstkanda hailing from Bhogapura situated in the Haripura country of the Bhāratakşetra. Vanamala was reborn as Vidyutmala being the daughter of Vajraghosa, the king of Śrlapura and his queen Subhāmā. Both of them got married. An elephant is introduced to select Simhaketu to succeed the throne of the heirless king of Campāpuri. The new king was renamed as Mārkandeya. As his father belonged to Hari Varsa hence this line was also known as Hari Varśa. It has been stated elswhere that according to the RPS, the Hari Vamsa was already established by Rşabha and the first king of this line was Harikānta of Campāpuri (p. 4). Thus Somasena has mingled the traditions of the PCV, the AP and the TSP.
According to the Adipurāna (16. 259) and Mahapurāna (5. 22. 6) Rşabhadeva had established Hari Vamsa and made Harikānta as the king of that Vamśa.
According to the Brahmanical tradition Janaka did not belong to the Hari Vaṁsa. The Puranas tell us that Śrīkşşņa was born in the Lunar dynasty (Candra Vamsa). He was known as Hari so his lineage came to be known as Hari Vamsa, There is a Purāņa which deals with the life of Srikrspa and it is named as Harivamsa þurāņa, because Hari and Śrīkļşņa are made identical. But in the Paumacariyam, the Soma (Lunar) and the Hari Vamśas are two different dynasties (5-2) without having any relation to each other.
As regards the Vamba to which Janaka belonged, the VR states that he was born in the line of Nimi (1.71), the twelfth son of Ikşvaku (7.55.4). The Purāņas also agree with this account (Vişnupurāņa, 4. 5. 1). It is said that after the name of Janaka (son of Nimi) the line came to be known as Janaka Varša in which, after many generations, was born Janaka II, the father of Sita (Vişnupuräna, 4. 5. 32).
Thus the Jaina and the Brahmanical traditions differ as regards the name of Vamsa to which Janaka belonged and also about the origin of Hari Varsa.
The following is the genealogical list of the kings of the Hari Vamsa as found in the Jaina works:
