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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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE RAMA-STORY
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that Rama along with Sita (2. 7) and the people of Ayodhya (2. 11) was eagerly awaiting the return of Bharata to grace the occasion of his coronation.
In the Ramopākhyāna (MB, 3.277.15) there is no indication to any such suspicion of Dasaratha in Bharata.
According to the Mahānāṭaka Bharata was not away from home at the time of Dasaratha's decision to crown Rāma (3. 5).
The PCR (29. 79. to 31.90), the PCS (32. 3, 9), the TSP (IV. p. 209) and the RPS (p. 97) are in agreement with the PCV.
The Uttarapuraṛa (78. 9) and the Mahapurana (70.18) state that Dasaratha announces Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa as the king and the heirapparent respectively and send them to Vārāņasī, their ancestral capital, to rule over there.
B. Rama's voluntary exile : વિજયશીલચંદ્રસૂરિ ગ્રંથ સંગ્રહ
According to the PCV (31.59), Bharata also was ounce the world along with his father. Kaikeyi gets aggrieved to learn that both her husband and her son would remain no more with her and thus she would die of their separation. Therefore, she thinks out a plan to prevent Bharata from renouncing the world. She demands of Dasaratha to fulfil her boon by making Bharata the king of Saketa. Dasaratha immediately grants her demand (31.71) and informs of the same to Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa. But Bharata is not ready to engross himself in the worldly life by accepting the crown. When Dasaratha and Rama persuade him, he frankly says that he would never transgress over the legitimate claim of Rama (Bharaheņa ya padibhanio naya tujjha vaikkamaṁ kāhaṁ-31.91). Being forced by circunmstances Rāma voluntarily exiles himself to remove the scruples of Bharata.
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No definite period and place of exile are mentioned. However Rāma tells Bharata that he may depart to any forest, or to the bank of any river or to any mountain, in a solitary place. He further informs his mother that he may go to the Vindhyas or to the Malaya mountain1 or in the vicinity of the sea (31.100). Rāma takes permission of his parents and starts on his journey. Sītā joins him without any opposition. Lakṣmaṇa accompanies them without making any rash and disparaging utterings against Dasaratha (31.100).
According to the VR, Kaikeyī is not at all disturbed by the news of Rama's coronation, because Rama is as dear to her as her own son, Bharata (2.8.13-19). But her maid-servant Manthara warns her of
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See also. 33.141.