Repetition In Jaina Nrative Literature

Author(s): Klaus Bruhn
Publisher: Klaus Bruhn

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Klaus Bruhn
Along with our text the reader will have to use not only figs. 1-2, but also the translation (Barnett, Ant.) and an edition, preferably the pothi edition used by us 23. The terms - varņaka-repetition (va°REP in figs. 1-2), hero-variation (hero-VAR, heroine-VAR), narrative unit, variation unit will be useful, although some of the structural features are not fully covered by them.
As Ant. consists of eight vargas we have divided the conspectus (figs. 1-2) into eight boxes (III and VIII divided for technical reasons). Details on the vargas as such are found in the inserted panels (three in each box, see below). We have presented the text of Ant. as a sequence of units, described in an abbreviated manner and preceded by the numbers of the lines in our pothi edition (p. 1a = lines 1-5, p. 1b = lines 6-15, ...). Thus the first unit appears on lines 1-3, and the last unit on lines 578-583.
In each box, the panel in the right hand corner mentions the pages of the pothi edition, the pages of the translation, and the sutras (sūtras according to the pothi ed.). The upper panel to the left always has two lines, of which the first reads as follows: « varga I, adhyayanas 1-10: pp. 5-37 of the pothi ed. ». Before explaining the rest of the panels we have to direct our attention to the sequence of units.
Following the distinction introduced in § 3, we shall first of all isolate nine « narrative units >>:
I, 1: Gautama
9-35
42-55
III, 1: «< Aṇīyasa >> III, 8: Gajasukumāra V, 1: Padmavati
59-219
237-294
VI, 1: « Mankai »
305-311
VI, 3: Arjunaka
311-404
414-448
VI, 15: Atimukta VI, 16: « Alakkha >> VIII, 1: Kālī
449-453
463-497.
Five of these nine stories have already been mentioned in § 5. Whatever the reader may feel about the originality of the individual accounts, the literary substance of Ant. is contained in this group of nine stories (and nine adhyayanas). Also the series has a common negative factor: The stories quote from other works (varnaka-repetition), but they are no devices for the repetition of textual elements in Ant. itself.
23. AgS 23, 1920: Srimad-Antakṛddaśaḥ and Anuttaraupapātikadaśāḥ published together.