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An attempt to trace the Source
Vadibhasimha had composed the chapters. The Jivandhara story is narrated in verses in the Kc. and in prose in the Gc. In most of the stanzas in the Kc. the story is stated in the first line and in the socond line a moral explanation is given through the Arthāntaranyāsa alamkāra, There is no variation in the sequence of events or in the story. The difference is that in the Gc. the story is described in detail and in the Kc. it is short and simple.
Thyugh the core of the Jivandhara story is the same, these two works and the Cc. differ in many places from the stories narrated in the Up. of Guņabhadra and in the Mp. of Puşpadanta. The Jc. of Haricandra shows the knowledge of the Up. as well as of the Kc., the Gc. and the Cc. The story of this work which is written in prose and verse (campū) follows the story of the Kc, and the Gc. to a great extent with modifications here and there. The Jo. in so ne places follows incidents which are only narrated in the Up. and not in the Kc., the Gc., or the Cc. For example, in the Up. Jivaadhara who meets the ascetic Aryavarmi while he was playing, takes him home to give him food on his request. At home while he is eating with the ascetic he cries and bothers his mother saying that he cannot eat the food as it is all hot.1 The ascetic who watches this incident, asks him why he does so. He explains the advantages of crying like that as follows : "Crying makes the collected phlegm flow out, the eyes get clear and the food cools down.''3 The same incident is described in the Jc. The following passage sh)ws that the answer given by Jivandhara to the ascetic is also the same as in the Up.
śrutva vāņim tasya mandasmitena tanvannir yatkşiradhāreti sankam / ittham vācām acacakşe bhavanvai mocamadhvimadhurimadadhanam // śleşmacchedo nayana yugalinirmalatyam ca nasa
singhäņānām bhuvi nipatanan koşņata bhojyavarge 1 sirşabaddhabhramgkara payodoşabadhanivýttir
anye pyasmin paricitagunā rodane sambhavanti 1/ (Hearing his speech you, with a smile that created the doubt that a stream of nuilk was flowing down, replied as follows in words sweet as the liquor made of bananas.
The breaking of the phleg n, the clearing of the two eyes, falling down of the dirt in the nose, the cooling down of the food, the curing of the cold which produces dizziness in the head, etc. are the advantages of crying.)
In some places the Jc. also follows the Up. with exactitude in the descriptions. For example the description of the cemetery in which Vijayā gave birth to her son Jivandhara is the same in the Up. and the Jc. whereas the way it is described in th: Gc. and the Cc., 4 while being similar between themselves, is different from the way 1 Up. loc. cit. vv. 271-272. 2 Up. loc. cit, v, 275. 3 Jo, edited by Pt. Pannalal Jain, July, 1953, 201 Lanha, p. 43-47, 4 G. 1 ; para 135, pp. 71-74; Cc. vy. 306-310,
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