Jinacaritaṁ: The Life of the Victorious Buddha

Some Notes on Jinacaritaṁ - 7
from verses 330-335: So Bimbisāra-Narindo Mahesino ... suṇitvā ... vibhūsito ...
upagantvāna ... sobhayanto ... nisinno ... gantvā ... ānīto ... cālayanto... patigaṇhiya.
As in Sanskrit verse, in many places the present participle has to be taken in a finite
sense, for the sentence to make sense. 9 I have noted the following examples:
viharanto (33) vasanto (69) abhipālayanto (86) gacchaṁ (141) patiṭṭhapesā (199)
gacchaṁ (221) sammasanto (269) pavattento (316) caṅkamanto (278) pabodhayanto
(279) vindaṁ (280) anuvilokento (415) vindanto (460).
As in Sanskrit literature there are some very long compounds in the present work,
which sometimes cross the pādayuga, and occasionally extend for the whole line, e.g.
the following Upajāti verse 348:
⏑−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−⏑¦¦−−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−−
visiṭṭhagandhākulaphāliphulla-nānāvicittāni mahīruhāni
⏑−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−⏑¦¦−−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−−
sucittanānāmigapakkhisaṅgha-saṅgīyamānuttamakānanāni
We sometimes see the sandhi itself cross the pādayuga, which is frowned upon in the
prosodic literature, e.g.
−⏑−−¦⏑−−−¦¦⏑−⏑⏑¦⏑−⏑− pathyā Siloka
yācito tena sambuddhāravindavadano jino
the last syllable of the prior line = sambuddha-aravinda- (300)
⏑−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−−¦¦⏑−⏑−¦−⏑⏑¦−⏑−− Upajāti
sugandha-indīvarakallahārāravindarattambujabhūsitāni
the last syllable of the prior line = -kallahāra-aravinda- (349cd)
Something we will not normally see in Sanskrit literature is ellipsis, which is
common in Pāḷi, and which, despite the obvious Sanskrit influences, is also found in
this poem: see e.g. pañca-abhiññā- (33c), sa-inda- (242a), saddhamma-amata- (332b),
sugandha-indīvara- (349c), -ākiṇṇa-acchodaka- (362ab), dasa-aṭṭhamasmiṁ (452c),
dhamma-asinā (453b).
Epithets of the Buddha
Ven. Medhaṅkara was very fond of using various names and epithets for his Hero,
and they occur in nearly every other verse. Here I have collected the varieties used,
and it so happens they come to nearly 100. They are listed here with the translation
adopted, wherever appropriate:
Aṅgīrasa
Adantadamaka
Atula
Arahata
Isi
Aṅgīrasa
Tamer of the untrained
Incomparable One
Worthy One
Sage
9 For this usage see Perniola, Pali Grammar, p. 359