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by other poets on this line. They are not found to have adopted every line from the Meghadūta. Only the last line of every stanza is adopted by them. The simple story of the Meghadūta is altogether changed and another incident of Pārsva's harassment caused by śambara is stated in a very scholarly manner. Thus the whole work of the Meghaduta is. incorporated with the Pārśvābhyudaya by Acārya Jinasena. CANTO-WISE CONTENTS OF THE POEM IN DETAIL
Stanzas 1-8:-These are introductory stanzas meant for describing the incidents that had taken place in the former birth of Pārsva who had been then called Marubhūti and had been the younger brother of Kamatha who had been named 'sambara' later on at the time when Maruhbūti had been born as a son of Ugrasena, the king of Benaras. Sambara, while roaming in the sky through an aerial car, saw Pārśva who was engrossed in meditating upon His soul. While moving in the sky his aerial car stopped on account of the supernatural power of the great Sage. Sambarāsura recognized Pāráva as his enemy of the former birth with whom he had come into antagonism on account of his being banished by king Aravinda under whom he had been serving as a minster, for his misbehaviour. On being inflicted punishment of banishment, Kamath, who had been driven out, had approached a particular river and practised penance on its bank fraudulently. He had been so much engrossed in meditation that he had been unable to remember the beautiful residence of ascetics where he had stayed. Afterwards, he had spent some summer days on the Bhūtācala mountain, having groves of trees grown there, schorched up by the forest conflagration. His younger brother, Marubhūti, had wandered and wandered through forests, crossed rivers and climbed mountains in search of His brother, Kamatha, for months together. He had been too much emaciated owing to the grief caused by His separation from His brother. He, climbing mountains, crossing rivers and
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