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poem composed under these circumstances, at once indeed made his body
free from disease and lovely, and [made] his Mayaraśataka (another name
for Saryafataka) renowned.""
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Allusion to the Jaina tale in Jagannatha's commentary on the
Süryaśataka of Mayūra. Still another reference to Mayura's
affliction with leprosy is recorded in Jagannatha's commentary,
from which we have already quoted (p. 8).¹ This reference is
as follows:-
śrīmanmayarabhattaḥ parvajanmaduradṛṣṭahetukagalitakuşṭhajuşto g
kşamo vandhavaskandhavalambi bhagavatsüryamandirasańkīrṇadvā-
rävalambanāśaktas tatpaścãd upavistaḥ pūrvajanmaduradṛṣṭasṛṣṭakuştha-
rogapanodanepsur vandhavaširvādavyājena raśmirājirathamandala . . . m
eva bhagavantam stäuti jambhārātībheti
...
'the celebrated Mayurabhaṭṭa, having become afflicted with incurable
leprosy caused by his misfortune in a previous existence [text broken]
patient, leaning on the shoulder of a kinsman, unable to rest against
the narrow door of the temple of the blessed Sürya, and having sat down
behind it, striving, under the pretense of the utterance of a benedictions
on his relatives, to obtain a removal of the disease of leprosy which was
produced by his misfortune in a previous existence, praises the Blessed
(Sürya) with the [poem] beginning jambharatibha [devoting some
stanzas] to the series of rays, [others] to the chariot, disk³ . . . [text
broken]
?
Here, it may be remarked, the cause of Mayura's affliction with
leprosy not 'the curse of the faithful wife,' but the outworking
of karma in a previous existence, and the commentator does not
commit himself to the statement that the leprous spots were
removed by the composition of the Süryaśataka, but merely says
that Mayūra 'strove (or, desired) to obtain (psu) the removal
of the disease' by that means. It may even be possible that
Jagannātha is not drawing from the Jain story at all, for he
1
¹ Jagannātha probably flourished in the seventeenth century; cf. above,
P. 7-8.
Text given by M. Haraprasāda Sāstrī, Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts,
Second Series, vol. 1, p. 411, no. 412, Calcutta, 1900.
3 Every stanza in the Süryaśataka is in the form of an afis, or
'benediction'.
The opening words of the Saryaśataka; cf. below, p. 108.
The division of the subject-matter of the Süryaśataka is discussed
below; cf. p. 84-85.
poem composed under these circumstances, at once indeed made his body
free from disease and lovely, and [made] his Mayaraśataka (another name
for Saryafataka) renowned.""
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Allusion to the Jaina tale in Jagannatha's commentary on the
Süryaśataka of Mayūra. Still another reference to Mayura's
affliction with leprosy is recorded in Jagannatha's commentary,
from which we have already quoted (p. 8).¹ This reference is
as follows:-
śrīmanmayarabhattaḥ parvajanmaduradṛṣṭahetukagalitakuşṭhajuşto g
kşamo vandhavaskandhavalambi bhagavatsüryamandirasańkīrṇadvā-
rävalambanāśaktas tatpaścãd upavistaḥ pūrvajanmaduradṛṣṭasṛṣṭakuştha-
rogapanodanepsur vandhavaširvādavyājena raśmirājirathamandala . . . m
eva bhagavantam stäuti jambhārātībheti
...
'the celebrated Mayurabhaṭṭa, having become afflicted with incurable
leprosy caused by his misfortune in a previous existence [text broken]
patient, leaning on the shoulder of a kinsman, unable to rest against
the narrow door of the temple of the blessed Sürya, and having sat down
behind it, striving, under the pretense of the utterance of a benedictions
on his relatives, to obtain a removal of the disease of leprosy which was
produced by his misfortune in a previous existence, praises the Blessed
(Sürya) with the [poem] beginning jambharatibha [devoting some
stanzas] to the series of rays, [others] to the chariot, disk³ . . . [text
broken]
?
Here, it may be remarked, the cause of Mayura's affliction with
leprosy not 'the curse of the faithful wife,' but the outworking
of karma in a previous existence, and the commentator does not
commit himself to the statement that the leprous spots were
removed by the composition of the Süryaśataka, but merely says
that Mayūra 'strove (or, desired) to obtain (psu) the removal
of the disease' by that means. It may even be possible that
Jagannātha is not drawing from the Jain story at all, for he
1
¹ Jagannātha probably flourished in the seventeenth century; cf. above,
P. 7-8.
Text given by M. Haraprasāda Sāstrī, Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts,
Second Series, vol. 1, p. 411, no. 412, Calcutta, 1900.
3 Every stanza in the Süryaśataka is in the form of an afis, or
'benediction'.
The opening words of the Saryaśataka; cf. below, p. 108.
The division of the subject-matter of the Süryaśataka is discussed
below; cf. p. 84-85.