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16 PAUMACARIU The Paūmacariu. This is described in Section 5. The Ritthaņemicariu The Riffhanemicariu (Aristanemi-caritam) or Harivamsi- purāna is the most voluminous of Svayambhū's works. Its extent is given as 18,000 Granthägras. It has 1,937 Kadavakas'. Its 112 Sandhis are distributed over four Books or Kandas as follows*: Jāyava-kanda (Yadava-kāņda), 13 Sandhis; Kuru-Kaņda, 19 San- dhis; Jujjha-kaņda (Yuddha-kānda), 60 Sandhis; Uttara-kaņda, 20 Sandhis. Its external form and structure closely resemble those of PC. As the latter is a Rāma-epic, the Rithaņemi-cariu is Krsna-epic. It deals with the life-story of the twenty-second Tirthankara Aristanemi and the narrative of Krşņa and the Pān. davas in its Jain version. The life-story of Rāma and that of Krşņa along with the Pandavas appear to have been very popular religious themes, and besides Svayambhū several Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhrarśa poets, before and during his times, became interested in them, employing their literary talent in composing epics on one or both of the sacred themes. This is to be largely inferred from literary allusions and citations in other works, since only a few of such epics have survived to our days. The available information on this point can be tabulated as under: Language Prakrit Author Theme Work Vimalasuri (1st or 3rd Rāmāyaṇa Paümacariya' Cent.) Harivamsa Kittihara (Kirtidhara) Rāmāyana Anuttaravāya or Prakrit Apabhramsa Or Anuttaravágmin Ravişeņa (677-8 A.D.) Padmacarita Sanskrit 91 (1) Jain, 1935, 70. (2) Appendix I, st. 59. (3) Jacobi, 1914. (4) Vidyotanacūri in his Kuvulayanālā (778-779) refers paranomastically 10 Vimalasuri as the first author of Harivaṁsa: buhayana-rahassc-daiyarir Harivamsuppatti-karayar padhanam vandami vandiyan pi hu Harivamsam ceva Vimalapayam: 1 See Premi, 1942, 571-572. (5) See PC. i 28. which is taken from Ravişena. The latter in the introduc- tion to his Padmacarita, while giving the tradition says that the sacred theme of the Ráma-narrative was handed down to Kirti and from Kirti, to Anutta- ravāgmin; the written work of the latter was scen by Ravişena and hence his present attempt (viz. Padmacarita): Prabhavan kramatah kirlin tato'nuttaravayuninami likhitam tasya sariprūpyja Raver yatno'yanı udyatahi Padmacarita I 42. Now we know that Ravişeņa's Padmacarita is hardly anything more than an elaborated Sanskrit recast of Vimalasůri's Paünacariya (cf. Premi. 'Padmacarita Aur Paümacariya' (1942,272-292). On this account can we identify Anuttaravágmin with Vimalasūri? But the latter does not say that he has inherited the tradition from any Kirti or Kirtidhara He seems to be the pioneer in composing a Răma epic, as well as a Krsna. epic; for the latter we have got the above quoted authority of Uadyotana.