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gara, the author of Yapparungalakārikai. Cūļāmaṇi is based upon a Purāņic story contained in the Mahāpurrana by Jinasēna. The hero of the story is one Tiviṭṭan, one of the nine Vasudevas according to the Jaina tradition, of whom Kṛṣṇa of Bharata fame is one. Cūļāmaṇi resembles Cintamani in poetic excellence. It contains 12 sargas and 2131 stanzas on the whole. The story runs as follows: Prajapati, King of Suramaideśa, whose capital was Pōtanapura, had two principal queens, Mrgavati and Jayavati. Tiviṭṭan. the hero, was the son of the mahādēvi Mṛgavati, Vijaya the son of Jayavati and this was the elder of the two. Vijaya and Tiviṭṭan were exactly corresponding to Balarama and Kṛṣṇa, the former fair, and the latter dark in complexion. A soothsayer told the king Prajapati that his son Tiviṭṭan would marry a Vidyadhara princess very shortly. The Vidyadhara king of Rādānūpura had a daughter by name Svayamprabhā who was very beautiful. This Vidyadhara king also had a prediction made by a soothsayer that his daughter Svayamprabhā would marry a ksatriya prince of Pōtanapura. The Vidyadhara monarch sent one of his ministers with a letter to the king Prajapati offering his daughter in marriage to Tiviṭṭan. King Prajapati of Pōtanapura, though surprised at first at this offer from the Vidyādhara king, consented to the marriage. In the meanwhile, the matter was known to the Vidyadhara emperor Aśvagrīva to whom both Prajapati and the father of Svayamprabha were subordinates. Aśvagrīva, the Vidyadhara emperor, demanded from the father of Tiviṭṭan the usual tribute. King Prajapati, fearing the
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