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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAṀ
Drstanta:-When a thread can pass through a diamond which has already been bored by a diamond-cutter then why not the poet can reproduce easily what has already been narrated by the omniscient1. It can be compared with that in the Raghuvāṁśa2.
Crows can do no harm to the Garuda. Can a lion not subdue even an agitated elephant ? ( 8.45).
Drops gradually amass into the sea and knowledge also reaches perfection gradually (14.124). Bharata not accept the suzerainty of Ativīrya, how can a lion live under a jackal ? (37.21)
Nidarsana:-If human life is not employed in the practice of religion it is like throwing away a piece of diamond which is in one's hand (288). Those who contaminate penance by assigning certain object to it exchange diamond for vegetables (103.110), destrory camphor to plant Kodrava plant, smash gem for the thread (103.111) and burn sandal for the sake of ashes (103. 112). Sumalin's adventure against Indra is a frog playing in the mouth of serpent (8.72). Laksmana's insistance to keep his sons in the harness of worldly glory is pushing one knowingly into a dark abyss (106.37 ). Persons attached to worldly pleasures leaving aside moral discipline and penance exchange a diamond for a cowrie (118.107).
Arthāntaranyasa :-Both Sugrīva and Rama's wives are lost. Sugrīva seeks Rama's help assuming that there is friendship between persons put in similar circumstances ( 47.4-5 ). Similarly see 113.41; 12.101; 105.106).
Prativastupama :-Even the brave meet their death at the exhaustion of their 'punya' as the sun also has to set after having lighted the whole world 4 ( 73.35).
1. सव्वन्नुभासियत्थं भणन्ति कइगो जहागमगुरोणं । किं वज्जसूइभिन्ने, न रियइ तन्तु महारयणे ।। १.१३ 2. प्रथवा कृतवाग्द्वारे वंशेऽस्मिन्पूर्व सूरिभिः ।
मणी वज्रसमुत्कीर्णे सूत्रस्येवास्ति मे गतिः ॥ रघु० १.४ 3. चिन्तेइ वाणवरवई, निस्रो खरदूसणो रणे जेणं ।
वच्चामि तस्स सरणं, सो वि हु सन्तीकरोहोउ || तुल्लावत्थाण जए, होइ सिणेहो नराण निययं पि । कारणवसेण सो मे, काही पक्खं न संदेहो ॥। ४७.४-५ 4. एवं पुण्णावसाणे तुरयगयघडाडोवमज्झे वि सूरा,
संपत्ते मच्चुकाले असिकरणयकरा जन्ति नासं मस्स ॥ उज्जोउ सतेश्रो सयलजयमिणं सो वि अत्थाइ,
भागू, जाए सोक्खपोसे स विमलकिरणो किं न चन्दो उवेइ ।।७३.३५
