Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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JAINĄ WORK ON POLITICS
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by name; and in the large town this traveller obtained his death from that record-officer; and (in another story) the crow (obtained death) from Gautama”. This is one of the numerous stories of the grateful animals and the ungrateful men, found both in Indian and in European folklore'. The well-known Pañcatantra story of the man who carries a he-goat and is told by some villains, and made to believe, that he is carrying a dog (Tanwrākhyāyika III, 5) is alluded to in Nītiv. p. 110. Pepo TEST: I a format i An allusion to some fable of a tree and a wild cat is found p. 111: sua fe 7149PAHTSINTEZİ ETET
P RIS: 1 Bhavabhūti's drama Mālatīmādhava is alluded to (p. 121): squa fe fatics - स्थोऽपि माधवपिता कामन्दकीप्रयोगेण मालती माधवाय साधयामास । 1. It is interesting to find in the Sadācārasamuddeśa (chap. 26.) amongst many moral rules of all kind the old rule न मृतेषु रोदितव्यमश्रुपातसमा हि किल arqara aoi choairt: “He should not cry over the dead, for as the tears are shed, so burning coals will certainly fall down on their hearts ”.. Compare Mahābhārata XI, 1, 40; Raghuvamsa 8, 85; Manusmrti 3, 226; Vişnusmrti 79, 20..
In the last chapter ( XXXII, 2) we meet with the term Sāndhivigrahika for the “minister of foreign affairs”, which does not occur in the Kaula țiliya; but Kalhaņa is quite familiar with the
i Th. Benfey, Pantschatantra (Leipzig 1859, I 193 ff.)
has collected numerous stories of this kind. But none of the stories about grateful animals and ungrateful men in Kathasaritsāgara, 5, 79 ff., Simhāsanadvātrim. sikā, Jātaka Nrs. 72, 73, 482, 516, is identical with the stories of the Nītivākyāmrta.
ámrta.