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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
It becomes cvident from this comparative study that (r) oply one incident viz, that of the dancing girl is common to the stories of LPS and PC, where also there is no similarity in wording nor truch in the details, the LPS account being very succinct. (z) The capital of king Paranarddin ( called Paramadi in LPS) is stated in IPS to be Kalyān akofi. pura and in PPS as Kil ya naka tak, while PC simply inentions bim as the king of the Kuntala country, 13 ) Some of tlie epithets of king Paramarddin are common to all the three versions, being strikingly similar even in their wordings. () The fourth quarter of the eulogistic verse Daridriin ctc. varies in all the three versions : The reading kasya kasto viratilsyati (I'C) is the best one, while the readings kah śramena rirasyali (PPS) and katham tiśramyale karah (LPS) are not up to the mark. (5) The Bha. t'ii-vilra incident and its corrolaries are found only in LPS.
Under the circumstances it is not possible to pronounce any sort of interrelation of these versions, though it must be admitted that the language of the 1.PS version is more archaic than that of the rest.
2. MADANABERAMAMAHARAJA-PRABANDHA
This very interesting story appears in PK as prabandha no. 21 pamel Madanavarma-prabandha in passage nos. 107 and 103( pp. 60-93) and in PPS as prabandha no. 15 entitled Madunubrah -Jayasinhadeva-prili prabandha in passage nos. 51 and 52 (pp. 24-25). Its inain incident is related also in pruhandha no. 13 of PPS viz, Dharidhr alsa-prabandhu consisting of passage no. 47 (p. 23). Jinama dan aganin's Kumarapala-prabandha (1436 A.1).) also narrates this story (Jaina Atmānanda Sabha, Bhảvanagar edition of 1915 A.D., pages 8-9!; but his version is practically the same as that of PK similar also in the wording. As such it cannot be regarded as an independent version,
A comparative study e these versions is displayed in the following table. Jina mandana's version, which is practically the same is that of PK, is not included in the present study.
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