Book Title: Kummaputta Chariam
Author(s): K V Abhyankar
Publisher: K V Abhyankar

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________________ St, 8-11) Notes 11 may mean with the mind characterized by what or equipoise. PUTETHE-(Sk. FAMATA, xga). The plural is to show honour. St. 9. Hrperih. Her appears to be a ezi word for Ay centre, middle. : St. 11. The story of gar and wine and that of TaT and TEGC are quoted here as characteristic instances to illustrate the excessive mutual love and regard of the king and the queen. The Jain version of the stories as given by the Gujarati commentary is not much different from that of the Hindu Puranas; it appears in fact to be taken from the Puranas and slightly adapted:-On the bank of the Ganga, there lived the king named दक्षप्रजापति who had one hundred daughters out of whom he gave twenty seven to the moon and all the rest except one, 3HT, to other fit persons. No suitable husband being found for ghT easily, she was given to eat or 14T who had a peculiar bodily form besmeared with ashes and holding skulls, potsherds etc. Daksha once performed a sacrifice where he called all his sons-in-law, except नारद and शंकर whom he looked upon as very ugly. At the pressure of JAT, Vent, however, went to the place of H, but he and JHT were not received well. They became angry and

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