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stration of selected specimens 46. In our graph, we have divided the UH material into 12 sections which differ in size and character but present, on the whole, a chronological sequence. Each section is represented by a horizontal box. If we read the boxes from left to right we are supplied with the following details:
Each box starts with a twofold quotation (H for Haribhadra, B for Berlin 47). The abbreviated terms pra(ksipta), Bha(sya), and Mü(la)Bhā(sya) refer to layers within ĀvNi (i.e. to layers as known to ancient tradition). Below the quotations is a caption where we try to summarize the contents of the relevant section. For the contents of section 6 (only a few verses of ĀvNi), the reader is referred to Hemacandra's version 48. In the centre of each box we quote the beginnings and ends of the sections (pantham...). A peculiarity of the UH tradition is the frequent deviation from the real or chronological order (flash-backs, prolepses in the form of prophecies) 49. We have marked such cases in the boxes 7-8 and 10-12: two prophecies, Bharata's prophecy being the full version of the last part of Rşabha's prophecy. Further to the right, the reader will find a panel which indicates the position of the section in the RşabhaMahāvīra concatenation (Mahāvīra to the left, Rşabha to the right). The quantitative statements which follow (as we proceed from left to right) are given in the form of panels (black panels for Mahävīra, panels with cross-hatching in all the other cases) and in numerical terms (« 6 vss. » etc.). The total of verses is 679 50
§ 14. Hemacandra's Version of the Universal History
Hemacandra's Trişastiśalākāpuruşacaritra was composed between A.D. 1160 and 1172. It is the only truly complete version which we possess (and which we know of). It cannot be said which material Hemacandra had at his disposal, but he followed the Āvaśyaka tradition where it was available. There are some differences in the form but hardly any in contents.
Our figs. 6-7 combine features of the grha table (fig. 8) with information about the internal structure of the work and the relative sizes of the biographical units. Figs. 6-7 supply (from top to bottom) the following data: number of verses in the parvans, reference to parvan and sarga (10 parvans, 82 sargas), number of verses within each unit,
46. The graph of fig. 5 is an improved version of an earlier graphic rendering: K. BRUHN (fn. 32), p. 41. See also Pt. A. M. BHOJAK, Cauppannamahāpurisacariyam (Prakrit Text Society 3, Ahmedabad and Varanasi, 1961), p. 20 of the « Introduction » (same graph as in the 1954 publication).
47. See Āv Studies I, p. 49. 48. Trişastiśaläkāpuruşacaritra I, 6, 189-256. 49. K. BRUHN, fn. 32, pp. 133-34.
50. Here the ganadhara account (not narrative in the strict sense) has been included into the UH, whereas it was excluded in Av Studies I (S 16, 1).
