Jain Journal 1991 01

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

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JANUARY, 1991
17. TSP Trişaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita of Hemacandra is a famous Sk kavya which contains CD's story. 1170 A.D.
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18. ANP Ardha Nemipurana of Nemicandra is a half completed cumpu-kāvya in Ka. ANP belongs to the group of GUP, PMP and CRP, by way of merely mentioning the name of CD. Only difference between CRP and ANP is that ANP has been generous to speak of "CD's highly respectable personality" in about four sentences. 1190 A.D.
19. HVB
Harivamsabhyudaya of Bandhuvarma, an excellent campu-kavya in Ka gives a compact story of CD in two chapters (chapters 4 and 5). 1200 A.D.
20. HMR
Harihara's Majuhanana Ragale has incorporated CD's story in toto. Harihara is one of the major poets in Ka. He has retained the frame of the story as it is but has changed the atmosphere from Jainism to (Vīra) Śaivism, as a result of this even the names of CD and Vasantasena were changed to Maluhana and Maluhaṇi respectively, who ultimately turn out to be ardent devotees of Lord Śiva. Place of action is also shifted to Kashmir. But with all these changes, the essence is not lost and some of the main motiffs remain constant. It should be noted that this is the only independent kavya, where the entire kavya from the beginning to the end is devoted to the narration of this story only. c 1210 A.D.
21. MNP Poet Mahabala's campu-kāvya Neminathapurāṇa in Ka also brilliantly records CD's story. 1254 A.D.
22. NPC Poet Nagaraja's campu kāvya Puṇyāsrava in Ka is an anthology of about 56 popular stories. Main source of NPC is PKK of Ramacandra Mumuksu. In other words, NPC can rightly be called as a Ka version of Sk. PKK. 1331 A.D.
23. SSB Salvabhārata of poet Salva containing 3437 şaṭpadi poems in Ka, narrates the life of 22nd Tirthankara and CD's story also finds a prominent place. I have edited this rare work with the help of a single palm leaf MS and the University of Bangalore has published it (1976). On the evidence of inscriptions I have fixed the date of this poet as 1495 A.D.