Critical Study Of Paumacariyam

SR No.: 022643
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K R Chandra
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 672
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Book_Devnagari
File Size: 18 MB

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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAM
50. The previous births of Simhendu and Rativardhanā or The story of Gohānika and Bhujapatrā:
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Govanih (Gohanio) and his wife Bhujapatra of Padmanagara after their death were reborn as Simhendu and Rativardhanā respectively, i. e. Śrīvardhita's brother-in-law and the latter's wife1 (77.111-112) respectively.
The PCR (80.200-201) mentions that on account of previously torturing the donkeys etc. by heavily loading them, both were forced to bear the same drudgery of carrying the load at the time of fleeing away from Vyaghrapura. The RPS (p. 262) follows the PCR.
51. The previous births of Bharata and Tribhuvanālaṁkāra Elephant or The story of Suryodaya (Ramana) and Candrodaya (Vinoda):
Following the agitation and thereafter the automatic pacification of Tribhuvanalankara elephant, Lakṣmaṇa enquired of Muni Deśabhüşana about the cause of the disturbance of the elephant. Then the muni told that the elephant got pacified on remembering his previous life at the sight of Bharata who was associated with the elephant in his previous birth (82.17-121). The story is narrated elucidating the cousequences of leading a wicked and deceitful life,
Candrodaya and Suryodaya, the sons of Prahladana by Suprabha gave up the discipleship of Lord Rṣabha, and became the disciples of mendicant Marīci who himself was formely a disciple of Rṣabha. Candrodaya, after his death became king Kulankara of Nagapura in the family of Harimati and Prahladana while Suryodaya was reborn as Kulankara's Purohita, named Śrutirata in the family of Viśvabhuti and Agnikunda. Kulaňkara once on his way to pay homage to a Tāpasa came to see that a snake which was his own grandfather in some previous birth as forecasted by Muni Abhinandana, was hiding inside a hollow log of wood which was being burnt by that Tapasa. At this sight Kulankara wanted to become a monk but Śrutirata prevented him from giving up his hereditary Vedic faith. Śrīdāmā, the wife of Kulankara who was illicitly attached to that Purohita finding her husband not renouncing the world, poisoned Kulankara to death with the help of the Purohita. Kulaňkara's soul transmigrating through the lives of a rabbit, a peacock, a snake, and an osprey was reborn as a frog.
1. The PCV is not clear. See the PCR.