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

Page 175

The Hari-Dynasty
māla's father as Vajraghoşa instead of Fajracapa and that of his capital as Silanagara. But this element, too, is based on another reading of the relevant passage of the UP as indicated in its footnote, 24
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In the Caupannamahāpurısacarıja25 of Śılānka we see still another form of the episode, which partly agrees with that incorporated in the Vasudevahind 28 and partly differs from it. Thus unlike VH, the CMC of Ślanka represents Viraka as Sumukha's vassal (samanta) and calls his wife Prabhavati Next, reincarnated Viraka is mentioned as a Vyanlara god instead of the Kilbışaka god of the Vasudevahındı In other particulars, though meagre, the CMC does not differ from the VH, for, like the latter, it sets forth Sumukha and Prabhāvati (Vanamālā) in their next incarnation as twins, who are reportedly delivered by Viraka to the people of kingless Campa to be installed as a king, with the special instruction that the couple should be served with flesh, wine and fruits The motive of the instruction in both the works is the same, viz creating such condition as would lead them to perpetual infernal life
20 In
The account as found in the TSPC27 shows greater affinity with that in the VH28 than with any other version fact, the TSPC version is based, for the most part, on the Vasudevahindi Thus, like the latter the work in question represents reincarnated Sumukha and Vanamālā as twins, born in the mythical land Harwarsa, and gives them the names Har and Harini respectively. Next, the deceased hing of Campa, in whose place Hart is installed as a king, is found mentioned as a scion of the Ihsvaku family only in those two works. However, mention may be made of one element which does not find any mention in the VH That is the introduction of a
24 p 344, note 1
25 PP 180-182 26 pp 356-357
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Vol IV pp 73-78.
28 Cf pp 356-57
29 The CMC (pp 180-81) cannot be regarded as Hemacandra's source, for, many details which are identically supplied both in the FH and in the TSPC, are missing in the CMC