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for, besides the statement of the Jaina paṭṭavali that 'Manatunga
converted the king who was beguiled by the sorceries of Bāṇa
and Mayūra,"¹ we have the evidence of our fully embellished
Jaina tale, which clearly represents Bāṇa and Mayūra as opposed
both to Jainism and to its representative, Mänatunga. The only
reference I have found that could lead anyone to believe that
Mayūra so much as favored the Jains, a passage in the
Yasastilaka of Somadeva, a Jain writer who flourished 959
A.D., and even this does not claim him as an adherent of the
sect. In the course of the story-the Yaśastilaka is a quasi-his-
torical novel the king Yaśodhara adopts Jainism, and in de-
fending his step against the objections of the queen-mother,
makes the following remark" :-
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
urvabharavibhavabhūtibhartyharibhartymenthakanthaguṇadhyavyasabha-
savosakālidāsabāṇamayüranārāyaṇakumāramāgharājaśekharādimahākavi-
kävyeşu tatra tatra 'vasare bharatapranīte kävyadhyaye sarvajanaprasid-
dheşu teşu teşü 'pākhyāneşu ca katham tadvişaya mahati prasiddhiḥ
'[Don't you see that] in the writings of the great poets Urva, Bhāravi,
Bhavabhūti, Bhartṛhari, Bhartṛmentha, Kantha, Guņādhya, Vyāsa, Bhāsa,
Vosa, Kālidāsa, Bāṇa, Mayūra, Nārāyaṇa, Kumāra, Māgha, Rājasekhara,
here and there, when occasion warrants, and in the chapter on kävya,
written by Bharata, and in various tales famous among all people [i.e.,
folk-stories], there is great fame in reference to it.'
Such a statement, taken from a Jain author,' should hardly be
1 See above, p. 19-20.
2 The Yaśastilaka has been edited by Sivadatta and Parab in the Kavya-
mālā Series; two volumes, Bombay, 1901 and 1903.
& Duff, Chronology, p. 74 and 93. Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, First
Report, p. 56, gave the date of the Yaśastilaka as Samvat 881; this he cor-
rected, in Second Report, p. 33, to Saka 881.
*A lengthy synopsis of the contents of the Yafastilaka is given by Peter-
son, in A Second Report of Operations in Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts,
P. 33-47, Bombay, 1884.
5 See the Kävyamālā edition of the Yafastilaka, vol. 2, p. 113.
By the phrase 'in reference to it' is meant 'in reference to Jainism';
cf. the commentary on this passage of the Yaśastilaka: tadvişaya digam-
barasambandhini, 'in reference to it [means] reference to the Digambara
[sect of the Jains].'
* Somadeva, author of the Yafastilaka, was a Jain; cf. Duff, Chronology,
p. 93; Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, Second Report, p. 33.
for, besides the statement of the Jaina paṭṭavali that 'Manatunga
converted the king who was beguiled by the sorceries of Bāṇa
and Mayūra,"¹ we have the evidence of our fully embellished
Jaina tale, which clearly represents Bāṇa and Mayūra as opposed
both to Jainism and to its representative, Mänatunga. The only
reference I have found that could lead anyone to believe that
Mayūra so much as favored the Jains, a passage in the
Yasastilaka of Somadeva, a Jain writer who flourished 959
A.D., and even this does not claim him as an adherent of the
sect. In the course of the story-the Yaśastilaka is a quasi-his-
torical novel the king Yaśodhara adopts Jainism, and in de-
fending his step against the objections of the queen-mother,
makes the following remark" :-
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
urvabharavibhavabhūtibhartyharibhartymenthakanthaguṇadhyavyasabha-
savosakālidāsabāṇamayüranārāyaṇakumāramāgharājaśekharādimahākavi-
kävyeşu tatra tatra 'vasare bharatapranīte kävyadhyaye sarvajanaprasid-
dheşu teşu teşü 'pākhyāneşu ca katham tadvişaya mahati prasiddhiḥ
'[Don't you see that] in the writings of the great poets Urva, Bhāravi,
Bhavabhūti, Bhartṛhari, Bhartṛmentha, Kantha, Guņādhya, Vyāsa, Bhāsa,
Vosa, Kālidāsa, Bāṇa, Mayūra, Nārāyaṇa, Kumāra, Māgha, Rājasekhara,
here and there, when occasion warrants, and in the chapter on kävya,
written by Bharata, and in various tales famous among all people [i.e.,
folk-stories], there is great fame in reference to it.'
Such a statement, taken from a Jain author,' should hardly be
1 See above, p. 19-20.
2 The Yaśastilaka has been edited by Sivadatta and Parab in the Kavya-
mālā Series; two volumes, Bombay, 1901 and 1903.
& Duff, Chronology, p. 74 and 93. Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, First
Report, p. 56, gave the date of the Yaśastilaka as Samvat 881; this he cor-
rected, in Second Report, p. 33, to Saka 881.
*A lengthy synopsis of the contents of the Yafastilaka is given by Peter-
son, in A Second Report of Operations in Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts,
P. 33-47, Bombay, 1884.
5 See the Kävyamālā edition of the Yafastilaka, vol. 2, p. 113.
By the phrase 'in reference to it' is meant 'in reference to Jainism';
cf. the commentary on this passage of the Yaśastilaka: tadvişaya digam-
barasambandhini, 'in reference to it [means] reference to the Digambara
[sect of the Jains].'
* Somadeva, author of the Yafastilaka, was a Jain; cf. Duff, Chronology,
p. 93; Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, Second Report, p. 33.