Aspects of Brahmanical Influence On Jaina Mythology

SR No.: 011037
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shaktidhar Jha
Publisher: Bharat Bharti Bhandar
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 315
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Aspects of Brahmanical Influence on tke Jain Mythology
the fathers of these lines were all contemporaries of Lord Rşabha Ikşvāku and were ruling at different kingdoms as subordinates of the patriarch Except the information that the heads of the above families were appointed by the Lord as rulers of different regions, the work says nothing about their identity, parentage, kingdoms and capitals as well as their relationship with the Master It is obvious from the list that there is substantial difference between the AP on the one hand and all the previous works on the other , for, the work in its dynastic list has not included the Vidzādharavamsao1 and Rşivañśa2 and has incorporated a new dynasty under the name of the Nathavamsa Next, unlike his predecessors, the author of the AP has also supplied the Ugravamsa with an individual founder who has been given the personal name Käśyapa Thus, in the work the term Ugra has been divested of its old functional and qualitative sense of a class designation63 and has been treated as a name of an individual line, reportedly established by a single64 ruler.
Now, among the later Purānakāras, Puşpadanta seems to be the only writer to have adopted Jinasena's scheme wholesale 05 But Gunabhadra and Subhacandra are only in partial agreement with the author of AP insofar as the former does not recognize thc Ugras as representing any independent line, but as a later sub-line sprung from the Kuru dynasty,66 and, thus, partially corroborates the Brahmanıcal epic-Purāņic tradition which has set out Drupada as belonging to the Pañcala branch of the Puru-line and connected with the Kurus both 81 Supra notes 35, 37, 39 and 48 62 Supra notcs 37-38 63 LAI, p 372, JHV 9 44-45a 64 Note 60 (antc). W PMP V 22 6-8 60 द्रुपदा ग्रवशोत्थमहीशा कुरुवशजा
UP 72 212 (The Lings Drupada, ctc born in the Ugravamsa (ucre) the descendants
of the Kuru dynasty) 67 Drupado, according to the epic-Puranic traduon, was the son of Paşata
who was 7 descendant of Ajamidha, son of Hastin Paurada Thus hc belonged to the same stoch to which the Kurus did Sce AIHT, DD 112 13 110,271,