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Bhairavananda
we know no more. But Gandharva appears to have avaied of another work also. As pointed out below there is such a close resemblance in certain statements and characteristic traits of the Bhairavānanda of the interpolated passage of the Jasaharacariu and those of the Bhairavananda of the Karpuramañjari that we cannot but think that while composing the Jasaharacariu passage in question, Gandharva must have the Karpuramañjari before him. Of course there is some difference in the distribution of emphasis with regard to the depiction of the various traits of the character, Gandharva stressing its braggart side while Rajasekhara bringing its dissolute way of living into prominent relief. But otherwise the similarity between the two portraitures is strikingly far-reaching. The points of resemblance-verbal or otherwise-are:
(1) Bhairavananda is a Kaula priest.
कुलमग्ग- लग्गा Karpū. p. I3, 1. 5.
p. 13, 1. 10.
कोलो धम्मो कुलमग्ग चारि jasa I 6 25 कउलायरि
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(2) Rumours about his miraculous powers reach the ears of
the king.
किं सो जौ जण - वअणादो अच्चन्भूद-सिद्धि सुणीअदि । Karpū. p. 12, 1. 13. '63 fame facgefta
बहु तन्त-मन्त अग्गइ सरन्ति' ।
इय जम्पन्तहो तो जाय वत्त
सा मारिदत्त - कण्णन्तु पत्त ॥ Jasa. I 615-16.
(3) He subsists on begging alms.
भिक्खा भेोज्ज Karpū. p. 13, 1. 9. भिक्खअरु
Jasa. I 6
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(4) He freely partakes of wine and meat.
मज्ज' मंस पिज्जए खज्जए-अ सव्व- गासि
Karpū. p. 13, 1. 8.
Jasa I 6
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