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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Sometimes sudden readization of the ephemeval
character of the worldly life was experienced through the
disappearance and hence indicative of the temporary nature
of a beautiful cloud, or through the hair turning grey虏.
Recollections of religious life led in previous
birth made one renounce the world 鲁. In the case of
Vakkalaciri, it was the act of the use of the upper
garment as a payakesariya, which made him recollect his
former birth as a Jaina monk. He afterwards renounced the
world 4.
In several cases complete disgust for, or disregard
towards the nature of worldly existence (nivveya) 5 urged a
person to wear the robes of a monk.
1. Vh(P), 23, 331.
3. Vh(P), 272,
272, 286-288.
2. Vh(P), 17.
4. Vh(P), 19.
5. When asked what was the reason of his nivveya,
Vamtamaya answers that the queen pupphadamta
responsible for his nivveya; Vh(P),
Vh(P),
286.
was
Jambusami
states that the recollections of the grief of remaining
in the womb (gabbhavasadukkha) was enough to create
nivve盲 in the mind of a person Vh(P), 9. It will be
clear from this that nivvea is a state of mind which one
forms voluntarily.
