Jain Journal 1980 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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(8) Bana's Kādambari : utkirna-salabhanjika-nivahena samnihitagrhadevatenevagandhasalilaksalitena kaladhautamayena stambhasamcayena virajamanam ......asthanamandapam.
(9) Somadevabhatta's Kathāsaritsāgara, ed. by Pt. Durgaprasad and Kasinath Pandurang Parab, Bombay, 1889, pp. 656 ff. tra. 121, verses 72-186. Here the story of the gambler Tinthakarala is mentioned in which appears tatsalabhanjika-rupadharini and a synonym of salabhanjika in devagrha-stambhagra-putrika.
(10) Kathas., tar. 123, verses 126-141, narrates the love of King Vikramaditya, the great monarch of Ujjayini, for the Princess Kalingasena of Kalinga. Stambhaputrika is mentioned here synonymously along with salabhanijika.
(11) A story in the Kathākoša (or Treasury of Stories, transl. by C. H. Tawney, London, 1895), pp. 149, referred to by Vogel mentions Prince Amaradatta who sees a very beautiful statue in a temple standing in a garden outside Pataliputra with the consequence that he was afflicted with the arrows of Cupid, and was unable to move a step from the spot'. This immage was supposed to be the work of the architect Suradeva from Sopara, who had copied it from Ratnamanjari, the daughter of King Mahasena of Ujjayani.
But from this translated passage, it is uncertain if a salabhanjika statue is referred to here. I would rather prefer to think of a statue like the Cauri-bearer, Didarganj, now in the entrance hall of the Patna Museum.
(12) Simhāsanadvātrimsikā (Albrect Weber, 'Ueber die Simhasanadvatrimsika', Ind. Stud., Vol. XV, Leipzig, 1879, pp. 185-453) mentions a throne decorated with thirty-two female images of gold presented by Indra to Vikramaditya who had decided a dispute between the Apsarases Urvasi and Rambha in favour of Urvasi. The thirty-two female figures are alternatively designated as salabhanjika, putrika and puttalika.
(13) The play Prabodhacandrodaya by Krsnamisra (c. eleventh century A.D.). In the second act of this play Mithyadrsti is called by King Mahamoha. When she asked for what reason she had been called, he replies : priye smaryate sa hi vamoru yo bhaved dhrdayad bahih mac-citta-bhittau bhavati salabhanjiva rajate.