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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kingdom back. Harivāhana agreed and commenced his six-months' course of austerities and mystic worship as directed by the Vidyādhara youth, who arranged for all the other facilities for the same. Many a goblin and evil spirit resorted to various devices of temptations and fear in order to compel him to give up the project, but the prince persisted steadfastly to the austerities. At the end of sixth months a goddess appeared in person and informed him that he had successfully attained the divine powers and that she along with all her tutelary deities, was at his command. The prince, however asked her to serve Anangarati, which she declined on the ground that they are bound by particular mystical regulations and further revealed that even Anangarati had simply played a trick with him in order to make the prince undertake the musterities, so that the minister Säkyabuddbi might get a suitable powerful incumbant to fill the vacant throne of the northern kingdom of the Vijayārdha mountain, as the king Vikramabāhu had renounced the worldly life. And, as the goddess disappeared, there arose the din of divine bugle, which summoned up all the Vidyadhara princes who instantly arrived and carried him to the northern range of the Vijayārdha mountaid, wbere they annointed him on the throne as their emperor and bowed down. But Harivāhana was all the while worried about Tilakamañjari and as he inquired if anybody had any news about her, the doorkeeper announced the arrival of a messenger.
Verses 88 to 103 introduce the messenger,-none else but Gand. harvaka, --who informed the prince that when Tilakamañjari put on the necklace she remembered her previous birth and the love of her divine consort Jvalanaprabha. She was then miserable and at once set out, with Malayasundari, on a pilgrimage during which they came across an omnis. cient Mahaņši to whom they paid their homage and sat before him for a while listening to his religious discourse. A Vidyādhara prince, named Virasena, inquired of the sage why tbe daughter of the Vidyadhara king Cakrasena had developed an aversion for males and why she was wearing a necklace all the time though she has renounced all the ornaments.
Verses 104 to 141 narrate that in reply to the above question of Virasena, the sage emphasized upon the strange nature of the transmi. gratory existence in which anything could happen and every soul was tossed, in accordance with the Law of Karma, from higher births of celestial beings to the lower ones of beasts, birds and vermin and vice versa. He then revealed that there was in the Saudharma heaven a god named Jvalanaprabha who, as he foresaw in near future the end of his tenure of godhood, thought of earning some merit for future births, and left the heaven without informing his beloved wife