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.
Appendix 1 - Description of Vidyadharas and magical lores
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assembly (sabhasada) to listen to his case and give
judgement1.
It has been noted elsewhere that the Vidyadharas
were generally beautiful and Vasudeva was so much beautiful.
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that he was taken to be a Vidhadhara by strangers. Some
information about the outward appearance of the Vidhadharas
can be had from the Vh.
A Vidyadhara dressed himself in such a fashion
that he sometimes looked like a juggler (imdajaliya)虏.
3.
Vidhadhara Amitagati has been described to wear a yellow
garment (piyambara) and some ornaments鲁 3B while Vidyadhayi
Mehamala, like Amitagate, was wearing only one garment
(ekkavasana) of red colour (rattamisuya) and had covered the
rest of the body with sprouts of Asoka tree 4.
The Vh(M) takes them virtually on par with gods.
(Suralogasamanabhavo鉁� Vijjaharajano) + the Vidyacharis have
been described in one place to be so much beautiful as to
create an illusion that they were nagakannas. The dress
1. Vh(M), 1.29a.
3. Ibid.; 139.
5. Vh(M), 1.3.
2. Vh(P), 195.
4. Ibid.; 73.
6. Ibid.%; II.232b.
