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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assist the king Kusumasekhara and proceed to Kanci. Both went there and searched for the beloved; but could not find her, inspite of their close watch, at the temple of the Love-god, over each and every woman of the city. Having lost all hopes, the prince decided to terminate his miserable life and for that purpose stayed alone overnight at the temple. At midnight as he noticed a pair of a woman's hands thrust into tbe window grill and heard her cry for help, he hastened out to help her. It was thus that he met Malayasundari.
Verses 80 to 107 again take up the tale of Malayasundari who was offered informally in marriage to Samaraketu by Bandhusundari with the request that the princess should be kidnapped away to a far off place so that her father could not offer her in marriage to the enemy commander Vajrā zudba. Samaraketu accepted Malayasundarl's hand but disapproved of the latter proposal in view of his father's charge, and thought on a different line of action which would help them all out of the difficult situation. Malayasundari was escorted back to her palace, where Bardhusundari immediately informed the queen who in her turn repor. ted to the king about the fatal incident. The king was sorry but perplexed and hit upon a plan to send his daugther far away, under the care of a trusted elderly maid Tarangalekbā, to the lonely hermitage of Kulapati Santātapa. The plan was carried out instantly, and Malayasundari henceforth led the life of an ascetic girl at the hermitage, where once again she tried to terminate the grief by doing so with the life and made off for the waters of the ocean. But she was pursued by Tarangalekha and others, and at last she ate a poisonous fruit and fell down on the ground. Tarangalekhā reached there and scolded her bitterly, but soon Malaya. sundari was saved from the harangue when due to the over-powering effect of the poison she became unconscious. On awakening, she found herself lying on a bed of roses in a wooden aeroplane which was found floating in the waters of a lake.
Verses 108 to 116 narrate how she again thought of drowning herself into the lake. But she accidently found a letter which happened to be from Samaraketu informing her, that he was hale and hearty, remembered her pleasant company at Kāñci and requesting Bandhusundari to look after her so that she might not get desperate. She gave up the idea of suicide. Meanwhile there arrived Citralekhā who recognised her and in troduced her to Patralekhā, the gueen of the Vidyādhara king Cakrasena. The latter was overjoyed to find her to be the daughter of Gan. dharvadattā and wanted to take Malayasundari to her palace but the latter regretted that being separated from her lover it would fit her better to live at the nun-hostel (matha) attached to the temple and lead the austere life of an ascetic.