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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the elevan Amgas, samaiya and others (samaiyamaiya峁噄 ckk膩rasa amg膩脧m)鹿. 497 The Puyvas :
The study of the Duvvas was undertaken at a
very late stage by the monk. Monk Jugamdhara knew fourteen
Durvas 2. There are references to several monks who had
the knowledge of Duvvas, such as Sagaradatta 鲁, Namdiva-
ddhana Jugamdhara 5. Vairanobha
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who was destined to
become a Titthayaya in his next birth, and Vajjauha7.
The historicity of all these, however, is not certain.
1. Vh(P), 16, 76, 176, 258, 344. Usabha and other
Tirthankaras upto Vasupujja are said to have preached
twelve Amgas, Vh(P), 264.
2. Vh(P), 172. Rassivega is said to have studied nine
Duvvas, Vh(P), 258. The Duvvas were initially fourteen
in number. The last person to know all the Duvvas was
Bhadrabahu who taught them to Sthulabhadya with a
condition that he will teach only ten Duvvas to others.
By the time of the Valabhi Council the twelfth Amga
i.e. the Ditthivaya incorporating the knowledge of the
Duvvas was found to have been lost, Deo, Op.cit., 脼.21.
3. Vh(P), 23
5. Ibid., 172.
7. Ibid., 258.
4. Ibid., 85.
6. Ibid., 179.
