Essay name: Vasudevahindi (cultural history)
Author:
A. P. Jamkhedkar
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune
This essay is an English study of the Vasudevahindi reflecting cultural history and traditions of the life of people in ancient and medieval India during the 6th century. The Vasudevahimdi is a romantic and religious tale that revolves around the wanderings of Vasudeva (a former Jain monk) and religious teachings in the guise of love stories, a common theme of poetry in Jainism.
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more brilliantly due to the offerings.
The same dreams have been described in an
abridged form and put in a stanza, elsewhere in the Vh(F)虏.
The objects seen in the dreams were believed
to be associated with sovereignty, prosperity and sanctity.
It has been also told in the case of Usabha and
Even that
Kanha that they not only perceived these dreams but
experienced in the same a miracle. The bull seen by
Marudeva entered her mouth when she was yawning.
when such a big elephant had entered, the Vh(P), says,
that she experienced no pain%; on the other hand, she experienced
1. Vh(P), 158-59. The editor treats camdasure as separate
and appends nagabhavana to devavimana which is incorrect.
The sixth dream has the speciality in showing the sun and
the moon together (jugavam). The editor was influenced by
the enumeration as given in the Kalpasutra (see Shah, U.P.,
op.cit., p.105) wherein the moon and the sun are treated
as seen in separate dreams. The same enumeration is different
from that given in the Vh(P) (158-59, 300) as it does not
include the nagabhavana dream
2. Vh(P), 300.
