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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Others Sects : 550 In addition to the above schools of asceticism,
the Vh(P) and Vh(M) also refer to other schools like the
the
1 Rattambaras, Bhagavadas, the Kapalikas and the Pamdaramgas.
The
Bhagavadas :
A Bhagavada monk is described as one who smeared
his body with the sacred ash (bhuti), who rode a bull
(vasabhavāhana) and was a devotee of Siva (Isāṇadevaraya)².
A Bhagavada before his initiation in the order
had to leave his family and other relations?
The Vh(M) states that sometimes the spies moved
in garb of a Bhagavada 4.
Kapalikas :
A vidyadhara, during the course of austerities.
1.
Reference has been made along with that of Parivvayagas,
to bhe residence (kotthaya) of the head of Rattambaras
(wearing red robes Buddhists ?) as one of the places
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suspected as a resort of thieves%;B Vh(P), 40.
2.
Vh(M), II. 227 b.
4.
Ibid.
3. Ibid., II. 228.
