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 Brahmanıcal Influence on the Jarna Mythology
giving genealogical details, accepts the prior cxistence of the line inasmuch as he iepresents Sumuhha as reincarnaled in the pre-existing family of Hari 3 Subhacandra, however, is clear than Gunabhadra, for he expressly places the origin of the dynasty during the reign of the Primeval Lord,' viz Rşabhadeva, the first Tirthanlara
Now, with the sole exception of the AP, all the Purānas begin the genealogy of this line with the account of Sumukha and Vanamala, wife of Viraka, variously represented in different Purānas The fantastic tale of their immoral union is told for the first time in VPC in connection with the pedigree of king Janaka of Mithila, whose lineage has been derived from the same ancestry as that of the Yadavas? In some of the later Purānas this tale in minialure is developed into a full-fledged story of seduction with individual embellishment The account as found in VPC is that in the expanding period of Sitalanātha, there was a king in Kaušāmbi, Sumukha by name. In the same city lived a weaver, named Viraka, whose wife called Vanamālā was seduced by the king Both of them enjoyed pleasures of senses for long and, after death, were born as twins in Hari. darşa Now, Viraha born as a god recognised them and carried them off to Campā 'As born in Harivarşa, he was brought (th-refrom) to this (place), so he became known as Hariraja in the three worlds "s According to RPC both of them were born
3 UP 70 74-75 4 अथादिदेवनिर्णीतो हरिवशकुलो महान् ।
- pp 7 118a 6 CMC alone calls her Prabhāvati (pp 180-81) and this is the only work
to have represented Viraha as a vassal of Sunnukha, Ibid p 180 6 21 29-34 , RPC 21 48-54 7 Cf JHV 17 1-37, 53-60, 161-62 , 18 1-14 8 VPC 21 2-7 RPC copies the account almost literally, but instead of
representing Viraka as a weaver (Kuvında), the latter work makes him
a merchant, i c a Varssa, (RPC, 21 28) १ हरिवासपमुप्पन्नो, जेण इरिऊरण प्रारिणो इहई । तेण चिय हरिराया, विक्वानो निहुयेगो जायो।
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