18 PAUMACARIU " Caumuha Harivamsa Apabhrarśa Jinasena (783-84) Harivamsa" Harivañía Sanskrit Rāmāyana purāņa Guņabhadra (c. 850) and Uttarapurāņa Harivamsa Among the Apabhramśa poets there was a general practice of inserting their namamudrā in the concluding stanza of each sec- tion of their poems. Svayambhū too follows it. But in the Rit- thanemicariu we find not one but three different such nama- mudris: those of Svayambhū, Tribhuvana Svayambhū and Yaśaḥ- kirti (Jasakitti). Upto 99. Sandhi we regularly find the name of Svayambhū inserted in the closing Ghattā of the last Kadavaka of each Sandhi. Even some valuable details relating to the composi- tid of the Righanemicariu are given the colophon the 92 Sandhi'. Over and above stating the extent in Sandhis of each of the three Kāņas composed so far, the date of completing the Yud- dhakānda and that of beginning the Uttarakānda, we are told that it took Svayambhū six years, three months and eleven days in all in composing the ninety-two Sandhis of the Riţthanemi- cariu. The colophon of the 99. Sandhi states' 'Finished Sandhi ninety-ninth, called "The Description of the Samavasaraņa" in the Ritthanemicariu composed by Svayambhū, the best among Poet- laureates'. On the other hand colophon of the 100. Sandhi says: Finished Sandhi hundredth, called "Samavasaraņa," in the Kit- thanemicariu (in the portion) that escaped Svayambhū and that was completed by Mahākavi Tribhuvana Svayambhū! And simi- larly we find the name of Tribhuvana Svayambhū along with that of Svayambhū at the end of Sandhis 101-104. Further, in the Ghattās of the last Kadavaka of 105. and 106. Sandhis we find the nämamudrās of Svayambhū and one Jasakitti or Jasukitti (Yaśaḥ- with arrows. They appeared (with their bloody wounds) like Palasas bloom- ing in a forest. Thus none of the stanzas mentioned by Premi, has any definite reference to the Fama-story. But on the grounds (1) that Puşpadanta at the begin- ning of the episode of Rāma in his Mahāputāna significantly pays tributes to Caturmukha and Svayambhū and (2) that the Prasasti stanzas found in the beginning of Svayambhū's Palimacariu praise Caümuha, it is plausible to ascribe a Paimacariu to Caturmukha. 1. This is to be assumed on the following grounds : (a) Dhavala (c. 11th ront.) in his Haritasa-purana refers to a narra- tive of Hari and the Pandavas composed by Caümuha: Hari-Pandavāna kahi Caümuha-väsehin bhāsiyam jamhā! taha virayami loya-piya jena na ņāsei darsanan paüram || (quoted by Premi. 1942, 372, note 2). (b) Appendix 1, st. 3 praises the Gograhaņa episode of Caturmukha. which is obviously the cattle-lifting attempted by Duryodhana and party, when the Pandavas were completing their stay at Virata. (c) Svayambhücclandas iv 2 (a)cited as from Caümuha mentions Arjuna. (2) MDJG, 52, 33. (3) Appendix I, st. 59-62. Stanza 63 is a Sanskrit subhāşita and it is not clear how it got in here. But similar out of place Sanskrit stanzas are found elsewhere too in the Prasasti stanzas found in Svayambhu's works. Cf. the Rudrāştaka of Išanasayana interpolated in the opening Prasasti stanzas of PC. and two Sanskrit stanzas (Appendix I, st. 51, 52) from Ravişeņa's Padma- carita found in the colophon of PC. (4) Appendix I, st. 64. (5) Appendix I, st. 66. (6) Appendix I, st. 69, 71. (7) Premi, 1942, 379 and Jain, 1935, 72, do not give 105. They missed it apna- rently because the namamudra occurs in the first half of the Ghatta of the last Kadavaka of 205. Sandhi.
