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Haribhadra diverted the layman Kärpäsika from his partial. ity for the Bharata and Itihasas by telling him the five stories of roguoni (211), and won him gver to the Jaina faith. Ho ordered him to make an edition of his works and to distributo thom among the yatis, (217). Ho caused other people to oon. struot 84 tomples on one platform (ekapithe), 218. He also pro. duoed the Mahānisithasūtra from & decaying manuscript, (219). Ending his life by anasang he ascended to heaven, (221).
4. SAMARĀICOA KAHA. The Jainas always regarded Haribhadra as one of their great poets, 'on a par with Padalipta, Bappabhatti, and others.? His fame as a poet rests almost entirely : on his Samaráicos Kaha. This work is mentioned by Hemacandra (Kávyánusā - sana, p. 340) as a model of the Sakalakathā. .
Haribhadra does not use the technical term sakalakathā, but he mentions the division of the subject matter of kathās in divya, divyamānusa, and mānuşa (p. 2, 1 11 f., p. 4,1. 13)'accordihg to ancient teachers. He further divides kathās in artha-, kāma-, samkirņa-, and dharma-kathās. His is, of course, a dharmakathā, as almost all kathās by Jaina autors may be ranged in the same category : whatever be the adventures of the hero or hefoine, the end is always their renouncement of the world and entering the Ordery and the narrative is usually interspersed with a great deal of religious instruction which, however, in our work rarely degenerates into sermons. .
The character as a dharmakathā of the Sámarāicca Ksha is manifested also through the idea of retribution which underlies the main story and most of the tales inserted in it. In the
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| This apparently refers to his Prakrit kavya Bhữrtákhyanam. * Compare Kalyānavijaya 1.c. p. 23 b.
Boidon tiho Samardiocalaha his Prakrit kävya Dhürtükhyānam is pronorved, in manuscript A Kathakota is mentioned by Sumotigani.
4 Hamacandra's definition of sakalakathi :, samostaphaldnittiotta. varnand is taken vorbatim from Abhinavagupta's Locans of Dhvanyaloka, p. 141.
Rajatokhara, Kävyamimimus IX, ýt 42, nugribën this division to Draubipi, who is quoted in Bhivaprakisa (lith or 19th centary) w an authority on dramation, 100 JR.A.8. 1994, p. 888
