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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goose (cakkavakill, parrot (suka) 2 and s膩rik膩, and
animals like the monkey 鲁. Especially the cock fight
(juddham kukkudanam) was so popular that it not only
interested the commoners+ but also the royalty 5. The
6.
custom of fabulous baiting on cock fights has also been
referred to 斜. There is also an idirect reference to ram
fight?.
Some of the above pursuits of entertainments
must have got altogether a different set-up when these
appeared in the context of the Gosthis. The gotthi or the
club was a peculiar institution wherein generally people of
the same taste gathered together and entertained themselves
by arranging picnics (ujjanajatta), debates and
competitions. Members of a laliyagot thi arranged
discussions on various branches of knowledge (vinnana-
nana isaesu) in parks (ujiana), forests (k膩峁嘺na) and assembly
halls (sabha) 9. Sometimes two members held funny but witty
1. Vh(P), 57.
3- Ibid., 105.
5. Ibid.; 333.
2. Ibid., 249.
4. Vh(P), 289.
6. Ibid., 289. 333.
7. Vasudeva to test the might of a ram brought by Pajjunna
Shta
signalled with his finger. The ram strait way rushed at
him; Vh(P), 94.
8. Ibid. 64.
9. Ibid., 28.
