Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

SR No.: 001609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 566
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, Literature, & Culture
File Size: 16 MB

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4. YASASTILAKA AS A PROSE ROMANCE
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An interesting example of Kāku-Vakrokti is found in Amrtamati's fraudulent message to Yasodhara, in which she begs to be allowed to accompany the king into wilderness after his proposed renunciation of the world. Yasodhara, while listening to the message, interjects sarcastic remarks which appear to corroborate her statements, but really give them a different interpretation reflecting on her character. Portions of the message may be reproduced here, Yasodhara's remarks being put within brackets. Amrtamati says: I will accompany Your Majesty, just as the tide accompanies the ocean (That is why you are fiokle ); just as the image of the moon accompanies the sky (That is why you have a black spot'); just as the shade accompanies a tree (That is why you are enjoyed by others); just as the track accompanies a chariot (That is why you are “full of dust'?); just as the flame accompanies a lamp (That is why you emit 'smoke'); just as sylvan beauty accompanies the spring (That is why you are full of Cupid's lore); just as the Ganges is the companion of the Himālayas ( That is why you seek a lower level)':5
Instances of Yamakas are occasionally found. A device used more than once is the Sșnkhalayamaka which consists in the continuous repetition of the last syllables of a series of compounds at the beginning of each succeeding compound. For example,
यः खल्वनेकविकिरकुलकामिनीनिशितशिखोल्लेखनखमुखविलिख्यमानशाखाभुजशिखरः, शिखरशिखाडम्बरित... fra:,
.......ages: , agz925FPS... :423................ Hea23:, qaqa...*OPIEST , M As pointed out by Jacobi, the Sțnkhalayamaka is used by Siddharşi in Upumitibhavaprapañcā kathā, p. 752. Haribhadra too has used this device in verses in his Samarāiccakahā,
The mixture of prose and verse is a salient feature of Yasastilaka which is one of the two earliest extant Campūs, the first being Trivikrama's Nalacampū written during the reign of the Rāştrakūța Emperor Indra
1 i. e. a blot on her character. 2 a lewd woman'. 3 i. e. disgrace. 4 i. e. a paramour of lower rank. 5 'देवस्याहं सहचरी..........."जलनिधेवेलेव अत एव चपलासि, नभसः शशिप्रतिमेव अत एव सकलङ्कासि, विटपिनश्छायेव
अत एवान्योपभोग्यासि,"......"रथस्य मार्गभूमिरिव अत एव पांशुलासि । प्रदीपस्य शिखेव अत एव मलिनोद्वारासि,
HTRA 4764fna s a #747 TUI******** T 157 377 59 STATE ***...? 6 See B. I, ed., pp. 79, 423-4, 449, eto,