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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SOURCES, CONTRIBUTION AND INFLUENCE OF PCY. 241 planning of some episodes and of having used words and phrases on identical situations. (i) Some proper names which were very popular in the VR could not be foresaken by Vimalasuri though they sound peculiar in tne PCV.
Aparajita's son is named Padma but he is addressed as Rāma also and that too for many times more than Padma. Further he is called Raghava, Raghunatha, Raghuttama and Raghupati, though for a very few times.
Anarigalavaņa and Madanārkusa are the birth-names of the sons of Rama, but these names occur four and five times respectively, whereas Lavana and Aukusa for 37 and 49 times and Kuša for 21 and 6 times respectively.
Bhānukarna is often called Kumbhakarna.
Hanu and Śrībaila are the two names of Hanuman but he is often called Māruti, Pavanaputra, Pavanasuta, Pavanatanaya, Vāyukumāra, Marutsuta and Marutnandana. He is called Plavaga and Kapi also. His speed is compared with a fiery gale (candanilasarisajavo 52.28).
Hanu's father Pavanañjaya is called Pavanagati, Pavanavega and Pavana also. The name Añjanāsundarī occurs thrice only whereas Añjanā for many times.
Sugrīva is called Kapivșşabha also though once only (48.33). Sutāra, wife of Sugrīva is addressed as Tārā also.
Vidyadhara Maya, the father-in-law of Rāvana, is twice addressed as Maya-Danava (75.7; 77.66).
Rāvana is a Vidyadhara Raksasa but at 69.10 he is called Danujendra (Daņuinda).
The Rakşasas are sometimes called as. Nisācaras and Rajanicaras. . .
Indra is a Vidyādhara king, but he is often called as Surapati, Surădhipa, Surendra, Suranātha and Sakra and his army as Surasainya and Surānīka (Chs. 12-13).
Sahasagati who claims Tārā is a Vidyadhara, but he is called Duttha-māyāvi-dāņava also (10.3; 46.13). (In the VR a certain Māyaví Dānava had enmity with Vāli for a certain woman).
(ii) Certain points of some episodes have basic similarity in both the works:
The way Kaikasī became the wife of the father of Rāvana.
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