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JAINISM AND KARNĀTAKA CULTURE
Unlike Vyasa's version, (i) Draupadi is the wife of Arjuna alone, and not of all the Pandava brothers; (ii) Arjuna is the principal hero and the epic closes with his coronation together with Subhadra, at Hastinapura; (iii) the poet deliberately identifies Arjuna with Arikesari, his patron, and compares him to Vişņu, Śiva, the Sun, Cupid, etc. Rice finds in this an oriental parallel to Spencer's Faerie Queen' in which Gloriana is Queen Elizabeth. This according to him is the only defect of the poem, which otherwise is important as being less Sanskrit in vocabulary than the Ādi Purāņa. It is interesting to note that the poet was rewarded with the grant of a village for this immortal work.59
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The Jinasêna, author of the Harivamsa Purāņa above referred to, different from the author of the Adi Purana, according to Mr. Hiralal. The former belonged to the Punnāțagana, whereas the latter was of the Sêna-gana. Apart from the repetition of the names of the authors there is also a confusing repetition of the titles of works such as Adi Purāņa, Harivamsa Purāṇa and Mahā Purāņa. Indeed, the conventional standards in the realm of iconography and painting, noticed in a later chapter, resulting in the repetition of the same forms and stereotyped expression, also resulted in the choosing of the same subject by different writers in the course of centuries. Thus, we have one Adi Purana by Jinasêna, and another by Pampa; one Mahā Purāna by Jinasêna and Gunabhadra, another by Puspadanta, and a third by Malliśêņa ;" 82 Harivamsa Purāna by the first Jinasêna, and Harivamsa Purāņa by the second Jinasêna and his disciple (same as Mahā Purāna) and a third Harivamsa Purana by Jinadasa.63 Since these are all of the same type, we shall here take note only of the most important, viz., the Maha Purāņa of Jinasêna and Gunabhadra.
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69 Ibid., p. 31.
60 Hiralal, op. cit., p. xxii; cf. Nathuram Prêmi, op. cit., pp. 8, 39. f. 61 Ibid., p. xliii f.
62 Of. Nathuram Premi, op. cit. pp. 154-55
63 Bhandarkar, Report on Sanskrit MSS. 1883-84, p. 123.
