Tilakmanjarisara

SR No.: 002611
Original Sutra Author: Pallipal Dhanpal
Author: N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 146
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 7 MB

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where he heard a boy singing a panegyric containing the word 'Harivāhara' He turned out to be the same Gandharvaka whom he had met in Ayodhyā. Gandharvaka then took him to the prince who was sitting there with a beautiful celestial damsel. Friends met in joy, when the bard recited a verse reminding Harivāhana about tbeir getting late for the ceremonial of entering into the Vidyādhara city of Gaganavallabha. The prince started, with Samaraketu, for the city at the head of a procession of the Vidyadharas.
The concluding verse (129) in the Sragdharā metre depicts how, while being looked at, with wonder and admiration, by the city-damsels on both sides of the royal path, they arrived at the royal palace in the Gaganavallabha city.
Canto V: An Invocatory Description of the Boat Verses 1 to 58 pick up the thread of the narrative from the incident of the disappearance of prince Harivāhana with the elephant. On inquiry from Samaraketu, prince Harivāhapa relates how he was kidnapped by the flying elephant who carried him over to the Adrstapāra lake near the mount Ekaśțnga on the Vijayārdha range and how on trying to control the elephant he threw himself along with him into the waters of the lake. The prince then swam out of the water and saw in the sands a series of foot-prints among which one pair was extremely beautiful. He set out to trace the lady and came to a bower of creepers wherein was found a lady, who, however,cared neither to return his compliments nor his queries and immediately left him there with a slight push of her shoulder while getting away from the bower. The prince was rather disappointed, but he tried unsuccessfully to trace her whereabouts. At last he got tired and passed the night in the same bower. Next morning he saw a divine temple where he happened to see a girl in the ascetic garb. She welcomed him and took him to her hermitage. When the prince asked why she had taken to the life of an ascetic, she broke into tears and then started narrating her sorry tale.
Verses 59 to 166 take us to the city of Kāñci, the capital of king Kusumasekhara and his queen Gandharvadatta, whose daughter the ascetic girl, Malayasundari, was. It was forecast by the revered Vas urāta that he who marries her shall become the lord of the whole domain under an imperial monarch. When she came of age-sixteen--once at night she went to bed, but was suddenly awakened at about mid-night by the beats of a drum, and she found herself seated in a corner of a temple along with many other girls. On asking an old lady standing near her, she came to know that it was a temple of Lord Mahāvira on the Pancaśaila island in the midst of the southern ocean, that the Vidyadharas under the