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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Jewelling the household objects of everyday
use, at least in the case of the affluent, was quite
common.
Objects worked with jewels include seats 1,
6 utensils 虏, vehicles 鲁, ornaments 4, weapons 5, images and
3 ornaments4,
8 objects of worship?, lamps and bed-steads 9.
The Science and Use of Jewels :
10 rayana
Use of jewels of five colours (pamcavannamani-
11 pamcarayana) was prevalent.
12 The various
jewels brought in use were Surapatinila or Surarayanila
or Rattuppalamani
15 (i.e.
(i.e. Indranila); Kamalaraya 14
Padmaragamani); Nilamani;
116;
Paumaravinda 17; Pulaya 18;
Vh(P)
1. ibid., 4, 160, 190.
3. Ibid., 327, 347.
2. Ibid., 226.
4. Ibid., 164%;B See also the
Section on 'Ornaments'.
6. Ibid., 279.
5. Ibid., 67.
7. Ibid., 159.
8. Ibid., 178.
9. Ibid., 180.
10. Vh(P), 157.
11. Ibid., 4掳
12. Ibid., 180.
13. Ibid., 268.
15. Ibid., 328.
14. Ibid.,
16. Ibid., 347.
Vh(P), 347.
17. Probably the same as Paumaraya. Vh(P),
18. Ibid.,
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