ENTERING ANOTHER'S BODY. 21 



prathamaiva for avameva. — Read in Uhle's text, p. 448, 1. 10, with 

 the manuscript, ayam mamopari catisyati, " he will hang down on 

 the top of me;" in Pargvanatha 3. 183, the same idea is expressed, 

 ma mamastu tadarohe papasyopari culika, " he shall not mount 

 as a tuft upon wretched me ! " — On p. 448, 1. 4, read manavati 

 for 'manavati. This contrasts the word with amanavatinam in 1. i : 

 All the women of the seraglio are without pride, hence consort with 

 the king; Queen Surasundarl alone is manavati "self-respecting" 

 (cf. pativrata in 1. 18). — On p. 450, 1. 18 the word mrnmayam is 

 brachylogy for mrnmayam iva : the false king, seeing the distress 

 of Surasundarl, realizes that he can never really enjoy his royalty; 

 his royal body, therefore, seems to him no better than clay. Note 

 the phrase niskamalam rajyam in the parallel passage, Parcvanatha 

 3. 300.^'^ 



The most important version of the Vikrama story, as indeed of 

 all stories that deal with our theme as a whole, is that told in 

 Pargvanatha Caritra (3. 105-324), edited by Shravak Pandit Har- 

 govindas and Shravak Pandit Bechardas (gravakapandita-hara- 

 govindadasa-becaradasabhyarii samgodhitam). Benares, "Virasam- 

 vat,"2348 (A. D. 1912.) 



The Pargvanatha's account of \'ikrama's adventures as a parrot 

 is one of the best specimens of gloka-fiction. It is in modern Kavya 

 style and a worthy, if not the best link of the Vikrama epopee. It 

 does not seem to have belonged to the " Vikrama-Carita " (Sih- 

 hasana), as it does not occur in any recension of that work. The 

 Persian version which we know from Lescallier's " Le Trone En- 

 chante " (above), may be a loan from the Vikrama tradition at 

 large. The story is likely to have been very popular among the 

 Jains : one wonders whether it occurs in the Trisastigalakapurusa 

 Carita. I should, in any case, hardly think that it is original here.^^ 



St! Uhle prints several times pa^akilyapr^\eca. for para/ca.vapraveca, follow- 

 ing, I presume, his manuscript. 



3' The blatant Prakritism vidhyayati, Sanskrit back-formation from 

 vijjhayati, "become extinguished." in 3. 297, is hardly sufficient to suggest a 

 Prakrit original. The Pargvanatha familiarly employs forms of this verb: i. 

 489; 3. 297, 361, 893; 6. 609, 858, 1322; 8. 243, 385. See Johanssen, IF. III. 

 220, note; Zachariae, KZ. XXXIII. 446 ff. In 8. 243, correct vidhyayapati to 

 vidhyapayali. 



