Book Title: Mahapurana Part 1
Author(s): Pushpadant, P L Vaidya
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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________________ IV. 18 ] NOTES 425 perspiration etc. He grew strong and powerful and young. His father then thought of getting him married. The prince was at first unwilling, but being pressed by the king, agreed to be married to us and quiet, daughters of the kings of Kaccha and Mahakaccha. The marriage was celebrated with great pomp. On the evening of the celebration, under the moon-lit sky, a concert was arranged by celestial nymphs with dance, music and singing, The ceremony was rounded off by gifts which the king made to everybody so as to satisfy all his desires. ] 1. 10 ATMOSFT, lying on his back the young boy was looking up, but the poet fancies that he is watching the path to emancipation which, as it were, goes in the upward direction. 150 tã qars, while walking slowly in the childhood. 16b 7hfç fa ets, sixty-four arts, and not seventytwo as with the Svetāmbaras. For that list see Rayapaseniyasutta or Paēsila hāpayam, para 39 and my note thereon. 2. The Kadavaka mentions some of the atiśayas which a Jina possesses. 3. 10a 99547 Tico 45, the so-called wish-tree is, a las ! a mere log of wood. 4. 14b FHTETTEUT, Fattirar afacertsafaat, T., i. e., lullaby or song to make the baby sleep. 15 to o t, these are the expressions which the mother uses to make the baby sleep. 9. 10a ratastegh 893, covered with fine canopy (Fala ) of China cloth. 10.3a gr, 5+ atfer shines forth. 17. 26 e a a793, pieaa ala:, as if washed or bathed in milk. Note that reg is the Inst. sing. from which is obtainable by a confusion of pear of the Instr. (Cf. Hemacandra IV. 342 ) and 3 of the Nom. and Acc. 4a आउज्जहं जेण मुहेण वासु, the arrangement of the musical instruments for a concert is described here, which arrangement is called पच्चाहार or प्रत्याहार. 9b कम्मारवी is an act of cleaning the musical instruments. 10b उद्दिक्खणु किउ हिंदोलएण, the introductory notes of the हिंदोलराग were sung first. 11b कउ णच्चणीहिं पुणु तहिं qay, the dancing girls then entered presenting the three methods of keeping time (atm), viz. quum, gay and ETT. T adds :--PRETATE Fraufatavia , Tafनयरछटकातालः, वीररसाभिनयो धारातालः. 18. The various technical terms of the art of dancing have been explained and their subdivisions enumerated in T. which I quote fully here :-- चारी पदप्रचारः, सा द्वात्रिंशत्प्रकारा, तत्र समपादा स्थितावर्ता सकटास्या अध्यद्धिका चापगतिः विघ्यवा एलका ५४ Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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