Samaraiccakaha (Samarāiccakahā)
समराइच्चकहा
The Story of Samarāditya
Prakrit prose romance in nine bhavas tracing the enmity of Guṇasena and Agniśarman over nine births, the classic Jain narrative of karmic retribution.
- Language
- Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Date
- 700–780 CE
- Author
- Haribhadra Sūri
- Extent
- 1,612 passages, 91,382 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- prakritinfo · Yākinīmahattarāsūnu-paramaguṇānurāgi-paramasatyapriya-bhagavacchrīharibhadrasūriviracitā Samarāiccakahā… · CC BY-SA 4.0 — via prakrit.info
Contents
- 1 — 142 parts
- 2 — 147 parts
- 3 taïō bhayō — 132 parts
- 4 caütthō bhavō — 190 parts
- 5 pañcamō bhavō — 104 parts
- 6 chaṭṭhō bhavō — 128 parts
- 7 — 142 parts
- 8 aṭṭhamō bhavō — 312 parts
- 9 navamō bhavō — 138 parts
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Recensions and editions (6)
- Samarāiccakahā (ed. Hermann Jacobi) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Samarāiccakahā (Rameshchandra Jain, Bharatiya Gyanpith, 1993) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit
- Samarāiccakahā (Hermann Jacobi, Asiatic Society, 1926) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit, not yet digitised
- Samarāiccakahā (Madhusudan Modi, Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay, 1935) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit, not yet digitised
- Samarāiccakahā (M C Modi, Gurjar Granthratna Karyalay, 1936) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit, not yet digitised
- Samarāiccakahā (Mangal Parekhno Khancho Jain Sangh - Shahpur - Ahmedabad, 1973) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit, not yet digitised
Commentaries (1)
- Ṭippaṇī of Kṣamākalyāṇa and Sumativardhana — Kṣamākalyāṇa and Sumativardhana, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
Versions and retellings
See also: more in Romances
- Kuvalayamala (Kuvalayamālā) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit; 779 CE
- Lilavatisara (Līlāvatīsāra) — 1285 CE
- Samkhitta-Taramgavai-kaha (Saṃkhitta-Taraṃgavaī-kahā) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit; 900 CE
- Kuvalayamalakatha (Kuvalayamālākathā) — Sanskrit; 1250 CE; partly digitised
- Samaradityacarita (Samarādityacarita) — Sanskrit; 1277 CE; partly digitised
- Surasumdaricariya (Surasuṃdarīcariya) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit; 1038 CE
Discussed in 15 studies in Pramāṇa (listed on the page).