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Vol. XIX, 1994-1995
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159 the Brhtkathākośa of Harisenācārya, which aims at illustrating how a person of doubtful nature meets with calamity in life and, on the other hand, a person who is free from doubt gets prosperity in life and finally achieves emancipation Moksa. Of the two sons, Jaya and Vijaya, of king Ganganāditya of Simhala, the former died because he was gripped with doubt and so being subjected to miseries he wandered in the samsāra. Vijaya, as he was free from doubt, libed there being looked after by the king with care and respect. He conquered his enemies, ruled over the island for long time, abondoned all attachment, took to Jaina penance, and at last attained emancipation. Harişenācārya is not the original author; he has just rendered into Sanskrit that which was there in a Prakrit commentry on Bhagavati Ārādhanā, also known as Mūlārādhanã. A good number of these stories are based on some event of history. In the history of Ceylon we find the name of king Vijaya as the one who established a kingdom there. It is also possible that Vijaya's forefathers ruled over Ceylon. Vijaya's father must have had friendship with either Pradyota Mahasena or his son Pälaka. And Vijaya had occasions to listen to the sermons of great luminaries like Buddha and Mahāvīra during his stay at Ujjayini and was greatly influenced by their preachings. This piece of information constitutes an important landınark in the history of Jainism in South India.
Padmanabh S. Jaini duscusses the Mahābhārata motifs in the Jaina PandavaPurāņa of Bhattāraka Vādicandra (A.D.1600), in particular the episodes of the story of Matsya gandhā, of Bhisma's lifelong vow of celebacy, of the two sons born to Satyavati, of Gandhāri's hundred sons, and the sexual aberration involved in the cases of Satyavati, Kun tī, Mādri and Draupadī. The alleged genealogy wlich Vädicandra found in his version of Siva-Purana is examined here, with a view to derive some help in sacertaining the chronological order of the Purānas.
H.C. Bhayani lias traced some ancient Indian versions of Oedipus, on the story of which Sophocle's famous Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is based. To get possession of the mother and kill the father - these two urges are subsumed under the Oedipus complex; is a basic doctrine of psychoanalysis and folklorists have found its symbolic hidden expression in numerous folktales of the world. The short study of this motif with regard to the early Indian narrative tradition in offered here as a modest tribute to Dr. J.C.
