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Genuineness of Uttarādhyayanasūtra IX. 34-36
J. P. THAKER
W HILE teaching Präkrit texts to his post-graduate students, the
present writer is confronted with several problems of textual criticism. One of these is discussed in the following lines :
The ninth chapter of the Uttarādhyayanasütra presents a nice dialogue between king Nami of Mithila and Indra, disguised as a Brāhmaṇa, who tries to dissuade the king from renouncing householdership for monk-hood, a parallel to which dialogue can be found in the well-known story of Janaka Videhin of the Mahabharata as also in the Buddhist Jätaka No. 539 named Mahajanaka.
Verse 32 of this chapter contains Indra's advice to the king not to leave for monkhood unless he subdues, as a true Kșatriya, all those kings who do not bow down to him :
"जे केइ पत्थिवा तुझं नानमन्ति नराहिवा।
वसे ते ठावइत्ताणं तओ गच्छसि खत्तिया ॥" Verses 34-36 form Nami's reply to this test:
"जो सहस्से सहस्साणं संगामे दुजए जिणे। एगं जिणेज अप्पाणं एस से परमो जओ॥ ३४ ॥ अप्पाणमेव जुज्झा हि किं ते जुज्ञण बज्झओ। अप्पाणमेवमप्याणं जइत्ता सुहमेहए ॥ ३५॥
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1 v.1. ha acqui & u 2 v.l. fafore
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