Setubandha

SR No.: 001384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 812
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 14 MB

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INTRODUCTION
Bhāravi's beautiful verse
चित्तनिवृतिविधायि विविक्तं मन्मथो मधुमदः शशिभासः । संगमश्च दयितैः स्म नयन्ति प्रेम कामपि भुवं प्रमदानाम् ।।
9.71 is based on Setu 10.82 : canda-areņa paose nijjai maaņeņa mahu-maeņa a samaal dūram dūrārūdho juvaīņa piesu bahu-raso aņurão II
Bhāravi 9.42 and Pravarasena 10.73 both refer in the same strain to the relative strength of passion and wine in overcoming maidenly bashfulness.
Occasionally Bhāravi borrows also ideas from other parts of the Setubandha. His picture of Arjuna fighting the Kirāta with boulders and trees which are cut up by the latter's arrows is suggested by similar combats described in the Setubandhal. Similarly, the fanciful encounter of the elephants of the woods with the 'water elephants' emerging from the Himalayan Gangā, described by Bhāravi (6. 14), is borrowed from the Setubandha, which presents such incidents in greater detail in connection with the sea.
Pravarasena follows Kālidāsa closely in several items in the description of battle scenes. The Raghuvamsa briefly describes the dust enshrouding a battlefield (7.39-43), a topic to which Pravarasena assigns more than double the number of verses (13. 49-61), Māgha's description of the phenomenon (17.52–69, is still more elaborate and full of exaggerated notions; and with him the topic becomes stereotyped in the later Kāvya.
Kalidasa describes in Raghu 7.50 how, after the carnage, a jackal snatches the half-consumed arm of a dead warrior from the birds of prey, but discards it when pierced in the palate by the sharp ends of the armlets. Variations of
i Bhāravi 17.60-62. Cf. Setu 13-89, 94; 14.74, 77, 78 etc. 2 Setu 7.54; 8-8, 63. 3 Cf. Vākpati 435.