Studies in Jain Literature

Author(s): V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE
13. Through the mouth of king Śrenika and Gautama the poet gives expression to all this see Pc. Canto 2, vv. 116-117, canto 3, vv. 9-15. Also see Winternitz Hist. of Ind. Lit. Vol. II, p. 490.
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14. Winternitz Hist. of Ind. Lit. Vol. I, p. 515.
15. Jacobi: Das Rāmāyaṇa, pp. 71ft.; Sukthankar: S. Memorial ed. pp. 387ff.; Winternitz: Hist. of Ind. Lit. Vol. I, p. 384; also Bulcke, Rāmāyaṇa, pp. 41-51.
16. Hist. of Ind. Lit. Vol. I. p. 517.
17. Weber: On the Rämäyana; Sen Bengali Rāmāyaṇa; Grierson J.R.A.S., 1922. 18. Jacobi, M. Monier-Williams, Vaidya C. V., Mahārāṣṭriya and also Bulcke.
19. Vimala tells us that Bhima-the räkṣasapati-bestowed the kingdom of Lanka on the Rākṣasa-island on Meghavahana a Vidyadhara. In his family were born Mahārākṣasa, Devarākṣasa, Aditya-räkṣasa, Rākṣasa... By mentioning these fabricated names he prepares the ground for us to accept his etymology of the word Raksasa. Curiously enough, the poem contains another interpretation of the name Räkṣasa : रक्खति रक्खसा खलु दिवा पुण्णेण रक्खिया जेण ।
तेणं चि खयराणं रक्खसनामं कयं लोए ॥ - V. 257
Uttara-kanda relates through Agastya that when Brahmã created the waters, he formed certain beings, some of whom received the name of Räkṣasas to guard them (Canto 5). 20. S. K. Belvalkar: Rama's Later History, Part I, p. LXiii.
21. "Tradition about Vanaras and Rākṣasas"-Chakravarti C. in I .H. Q. Vol. I (1925).
22. Kaviparmeśvaranigaditagadyakathā-mātṛkaṁ puroścaritaim
Up. Prasasti 17.
23. Sa pujyah...parameśvaraḥ
Vägarthasangraham... purāņaṁ Samagrahit.-Adi-Purana 1.60.
24. Cavundārāya (978 A. D.) in his Adipuräna declares that Mahapuräna was composed formerly (even before Jinasena and Gunabhadra) by Küci Bhattaraka and Śrinandi Muni. 25. See Jain Sahitya aura Itihasa, p. 280.
26. He suggests the sources possible, viz., Adbhuta-Rāmāyaṇa, Dasaratha Jataka and Valmiki-Rāmāyaṇa.
27. Raghavan, V.: "Music in the Adbhuta Rämäyana", Journal Music Academy, Vol. 16, pp.
66ff.
and
Grierson, G. A.: "On the Adbhuta Rāmāyaṇa", Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, Vol. IV. pp. 11 ff.
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