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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arrival. The prince was accorded a royal welcome and treated exceptionally well with a celestial feast, at the end of which, the doorkeeper reported to him the arrival of a parrot with a return-message from Kamalagupta, who was camping at the out-door camp along the Lauhitya mountain. The parrot was ushered in and Harivahana put him in his lap, when an attendant brought a magical divine cloak from Tilakamañjarī who had sent it to enable the prince to go around and see the city unobserved. The moment the cloak was put on the body of Harivahana there from his lap a arose young boy who was rone else but Gandharvaka.
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In verses 112-152, Gandharvaka relates his account beginning from Ayodhya where he took leave cf the prince. Thence he went (in company of Citramaya) to the Suvela mountain where he delivered the message to the Vidyadhara king Vicitravirya, and having taken from him the divine aeroplane, he started for Kafici to see Gandharvadattā. On his way his eyes fell upon an old woman crying for help and he descended near the Prasanta-vairāśrama of Kulapati Santatapa, where he found, Malayasundari unconscious due to the effect of poison. He took her into the aeroplane and charged his companion Citramaya to take care of the old woman, and in case he failed to return due to some unforeseen circumstances, to assume a suitable form and carry prince Harivahana to the Rathanupuracakravala city. Gandharvaka, then, started to the south in search of medicinal plants. Near the Ratnakuta island his aeroplane was suddenly stopped by Mahodara a Vakṣa attendant charged with the protection of the temple there on express orders of the goddess Śr. While arguing with Gandharvaka, the Yakṣa revealed how he had saved both Samaraketu and Malayasundart when they threw themselves into the waters near that temple and having taken offence at Gandharvaka's careless folly of driving from over the divine temple and consequently insulting the image of the Lord Jina, he cursed him to become a bird and threw the aeroplane away with such a force that it fell into the waters of the Adṛṣṭapara lake. It was during this miserable life of the parrot, said Gandharvaka, that he had carried the messages. In verses 153 to 160 the narrative again returns to Harivahana who read the message which brought the news of Samaraketu's disappearance from the camp and his reported journey to the north through a dense forest. Harivahana then wanted to return to his camp. The canto concludes with two verses, (161-162) in the Malati and the Sikharin metres respectively which depict the sorrow of both Tilakamañjarī and Malayasundari, as the prince leaves them. Citramaya is entrusted with the charge of conveying the prince, in an aeroplane, to his camp and of returning with him as soon as possible,