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Charp entier, Uttairadhyayanasutra
is certainly the reason why this old religious poetry is perhaps
different in words, but alike in spirit and general modes of ex-
pression, whether we find it amongst Brahmins, Jains or Buddhists.
There is still another part of our text to be dealt with, viz.
the legendary chapters, which are the following:
IX. Pravrajya of King Nami XX. The great duty of the Nir-
Harikesa
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XVIII.
XIX.
Citra and Sambhnta XXI.
Isukara XXII.
Sanjaya XXIII.
Mrgaputra XXV.
granthas
Samudrapala
Rathanemi
Kesi and Gautama
The story of the sacrifice;
altogether eleven chapters. Parts of these chapters contain old
legends, which are also to be found in the sacred or profane texts
of the Brahmins and Buddhists, and which belong to the art of
poetry that Winternitz1 has aptly called »asketendichtung» (ascetic
poetry); again, parts of them are certainly Jain in their origin,
and may belong to the old set of religious legends of that
church.
To the former division belong the following lectures: IX
Pravrajya of king Nami, XII Harikesa, XIII Citra and Sambhnta,
XIV Isukara and XXII Rathanemi, which forms an episode be-
longing to the cycle of tales that group themselves around the
story of Krsna and of the great saint Aristanemi2.
I may very suitably refer the reader to the literature concern-
ing these legends that has already been published, mainly by
Leumann and myself, and that will be duly referred to in the
commentary. From these discussions it appears clear that: i)
the story of king Nami belongs to a vast cycle of legends con-
cerning the four pratyekctbuddha’s, four kingly saints very fa-
mous amongst the Jains and Buddhists, and to some degree known
even to the Brahmins; in the verses it contains certain striking cases
of coincidence with stanzas occurring in the old Buddhist poetry of
the Jataka &c.; 2) the legend of Harikesa, the holy man of low
caste, bears an exact resemblance to the Matangajdtaka (Jataka
1 Geschichte der indischen Litteratur I, p. 267 and passim.
2 In the eighteenth chapter (Sanjaya) there are references to a
great many legends of Jain saints, partly known also from other
sources.
Charp entier, Uttairadhyayanasutra
is certainly the reason why this old religious poetry is perhaps
different in words, but alike in spirit and general modes of ex-
pression, whether we find it amongst Brahmins, Jains or Buddhists.
There is still another part of our text to be dealt with, viz.
the legendary chapters, which are the following:
IX. Pravrajya of King Nami XX. The great duty of the Nir-
Harikesa
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XVIII.
XIX.
Citra and Sambhnta XXI.
Isukara XXII.
Sanjaya XXIII.
Mrgaputra XXV.
granthas
Samudrapala
Rathanemi
Kesi and Gautama
The story of the sacrifice;
altogether eleven chapters. Parts of these chapters contain old
legends, which are also to be found in the sacred or profane texts
of the Brahmins and Buddhists, and which belong to the art of
poetry that Winternitz1 has aptly called »asketendichtung» (ascetic
poetry); again, parts of them are certainly Jain in their origin,
and may belong to the old set of religious legends of that
church.
To the former division belong the following lectures: IX
Pravrajya of king Nami, XII Harikesa, XIII Citra and Sambhnta,
XIV Isukara and XXII Rathanemi, which forms an episode be-
longing to the cycle of tales that group themselves around the
story of Krsna and of the great saint Aristanemi2.
I may very suitably refer the reader to the literature concern-
ing these legends that has already been published, mainly by
Leumann and myself, and that will be duly referred to in the
commentary. From these discussions it appears clear that: i)
the story of king Nami belongs to a vast cycle of legends con-
cerning the four pratyekctbuddha’s, four kingly saints very fa-
mous amongst the Jains and Buddhists, and to some degree known
even to the Brahmins; in the verses it contains certain striking cases
of coincidence with stanzas occurring in the old Buddhist poetry of
the Jataka &c.; 2) the legend of Harikesa, the holy man of low
caste, bears an exact resemblance to the Matangajdtaka (Jataka
1 Geschichte der indischen Litteratur I, p. 267 and passim.
2 In the eighteenth chapter (Sanjaya) there are references to a
great many legends of Jain saints, partly known also from other
sources.