Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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out the sägara (or its equivalent) which should be here. Trayastriňśābdhyāyur would be a possible emendation. (For the use of trinsa, cf. 6. 1. 27). If the text reading of 358 is kept, surely the alternative reading given by the editor for pada c in 257 should be accepted. As it is, only one brother fasts, but both die.
But with a correct alternative reading supported by five MSS, it is hardly necessary to devise emendations. There is one objection to the reading that I prefer. The brothers were not sahodara-born of the same mother. However, several Indian Sanskritists have assured me that sahodara may be loosely used for' brothers' in general. The Sabdakalpadruma gives bhrātp as a definition of sahodara (s.v.). Munibhadra's version agrees with the printed text in
facts; but the wording is entirely different (14.449). P. 305 (5. 5. 91). The first three incarnations are omitted
in this résumé. They were comparatively insignificant
ones. P. 315 (5. 5. 259). Hemacandra still keeps the number of
cooks at 363, though he does not here make the comparison with the days of the year, as in the earlier parallel passages. (See I, 263, n. 321 ; II, 160, n. 317, 348.) All my MSS again have the number 363. In Vol. I of the new edition of the Trişașțio (Bhavnagar, 1936), an alternative MS reading is given for 1. 4. 720, though not adopted by the editors. For sataistribhistrisastyagrairvāsarairiva vatsarah two MSS read 'agraistridinonārkavarşavat. This would reconcile Hemacandra's 363 cooks with the normal year of 360 days.