![]() ![]() From sarga 19 onwards, twelve chapters are devoted to his adventures, the Vasudevahindi. The youngest of the Daśārhas, the handsome Vasudeva, leaves the palace to roam the world for one hundred years. Andhakavrishni renounces the world after which his eldest son Samudravijaya becomes king. The eighteenth sarga presents King Yadu in the Hari dynasty giving rise to the Yādava branch in Mathurā and introduces some of the characters known from their equivalents in the Mahabharata: Andhakavrishni and his ten sons (Daśārhas) and two daughters, Kuntī and Mādrī, Bhojakavrishni and his sons Ugrasena, Mahāsena and Devasena, and Jarāsandha, the king of Rājagriha. Jinasena then briefly describes several generations of kings in the Hari dynasty, listing some of their extraordinary feats (16–17). In sarga 13 the Harivamśapurāna proper begins, with a sketch of history up to the tenth Jina, Śītalanātha, during whose time the Hari dynasty arises.Īccording to the Harivamśapurāna the harivamśa is named after a king, Hari, the first king of Campā, son of a Vidyādhara couple (14–15). This is followed by the stories of Bharata and Bāhubali, two sons of Rishabha, and founders of the Solar and the Lunar dynasty (11–12) respectively. He is also the founder of the ikshvākuvamśa, and further, upon his cousins, Nami and Vinami, he bestows vidyās, magical powers, and the land to establish their own dynasty, the vidyādharavamśa (8–10). The last Kulakara fathers the first Jina, Rishabha, who continues the work of the Kulakaras, giving rise to the basic social and hierarchical structures, and installing professions and castes. ![]() Indrabhūti Gautama, the head of Mahāvīra’s assembly, commences with an exposition of cosmology, chronology, and the rise of the Kulakaras (4–7). True to the systematic requirements of a Jaina Purana, the first three chapters describe the narrative setting of Mahāvīra’s samavasarana, where Shrenika enquires about the story of the Hari dynasty upon seeing Jitashatru, a monk of the Hari lineage, attaining kevalajñāna. They consist of four larger parts: (1) Harivamśa, including the story of Krishna, his ancestors and progeny (2) Nemicarita, the biography of the 22nd Tīrthankara, Krishna’s cousin (3) Pāndavacarita, containing the central narrative of the Mahabharata and (4) Vasudevahindi, the narrative of the wanderings of Krishna’s father Vasudeva, in reality being a Jaina version of the Brhatkathā in which the character of Prince Naravāhanadatta is replaced by Vasudeva. ![]() the story of Krishna and his relatives, or Mahabharata material. In general, all Jaina Harivamśa narratives go far beyond what one might consider to be fitting for the Harivamśa, i.e. ![]()
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