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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Canto VIII: Revelations About The Previous Births Verses 1 to 36 narrate how on reaching back to his camp near the Lauhitya mountain, Harivāhana found his elephant, Vairiyamadanda, whom, as he told Citramāya, he had thought to be dead. But Citramāya pointed out to the impossibility and incredibility in that a mundane beast like an elephant could never fly. He assured him that it must be some celestial being in the garb of an elephant, but that particular elephant ipfrout of them was really the prince's own one. They mounted on it and reached the camp where they found everybody except Samaraketu. On inquiry Harivāhana was informed about his entering into the forest in the northern direction. He immediately began the pursuit and would not tbink of giving it up. Citramāya was tired and returned alone back to the Vidyādhara city. After a few days Gandharvaka happened to meet him with the pews that after Harivāhana's departure both the princesses were much dejected and passed their time in grief. Alone returned Citramāya who informed them about the prince who was engaged in searching out Samaraketu. Malayasundari swooned on hearing about such a turn of the events. Tilakamañjari, however, ordered him to fetch the prince back to the Vidyādhara city and offered the assistance of a thousand Vidyādhara soldiers to carry on the search. Harivābana accepted this offer and carried on the search from his camp at the Lauhitya mountain.
Verses 37 to 87 inform us that once there came Sankhapāņi, the Minister of Treasury, and handed over to him the Candrātapa necklace and the Bālaruņa ring both of which were sept by king Meghavābana. Harivābana sent them through Gandharvaka as a gift, each to Tilakamañjari and Malayasundari respectively. The next day, Caturikā returned with a message from Tilakamañjari who had conveyed that the embrace of the necklace had unfortunately marred all her chances of ever aspiring to have one from him, but that he should not forget her. This unexpected estrangement on the part of his beloved, shocked the prince who at once set out to throw himself down the Wish-fulfilling Precipice of the mountain. On his way he found a beautiful young girl holding at the feet of a young man who insisted upon her to let him fall from the precipice first. On enquiry the young man introduced himself as the Vidyādhara prince Anangarati, and said that, as his domain was usurped by his kinsmen he wanted to get rid of his useless life, but that his wife would not allow him to die first and insisted on herself having the first chance lest she might not be able to bear the dreadful sight! Harivāhana offered him his own kingdom, but Anangarati, however, wished that the prince should secure divine powers on his behalf and thus help him get his own Vidyadhara