Madanrekha Akhyayika

SR No.: 002639
Original Sutra Author: Jinbhadrasuri
Author: Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1973
Total Pages: 304
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

Page 75

literary artist and utilizes the narrative opportunity to parade his knowledge of scholastic discussion or to induct as much religious teaching as can be possible, or exhibit his ability to compose devotional panegyric in praise of the Jinas. The only relieving feature is he never introduces these without proper narrative context and generally maintains the sense of proportion in them,
The continuity of the incident and the dialogue of the fourth. Ucchväsa in the beginning of the fifth one renders the division of the two Ucchvāsas itropportune.
66
A few of his incidents and imageries are very strange, as, for instance, the attitude of a lion based on an equally unrealistic imagery of a Sarabha,144 the untimely imagery based on the unrealistic metaphor,145 an equally strange imagery likening the regime of king Maniratha to a woman's upper garment (satika),140, an expectation from a fatally wounded and dying person to requsition the power of concentration necessary for grasping the significance of religious discourse couched in a language heavily loaded with paronomasia,147 an improper imagery likening the spiritual attainment to a bride with reference to the emancipated souls who are said to covet her only, an and unusual way of referring to Candrayasas as the son of Asvasena by Madanarekha implying in turn the justification of the nomenclature Aávasena' in respect of Yugabahu ground of his famous cavalry, totally uuwarranted in the context.149.
the
In a few instances the poet distorts the construction of a sentence or verse sometimes leaving the sense incomplete,150 or distorting the metrical rhythm,161 or incorporating a contradiction in a simile, as, for instance, where a mother-of-pearl (sukti) is compared to a to a sea of nector,152 or involving an awkward metaphor: Sometimes a farfetched and clumsy construction mars a good idea contained in it.154 At times his construction remains slightly loose,156 or vague,166 In few cases the poet commits
144. MRA, p. 109, 257 cd.
145. Op. cit., p. 110, vs. 261.
146. Op. cit., p. 39 (2).
147. Op. cit., p. 103, vss. 239-241. 148. Op. cit., p. 104, vs. 243 cd. 149. MRA, p. 107 (2).
150. Op. cit., p. 108, vs. 253. 151. Op. cit,, p. 76, vs. 164 d. 152. Op. cit.. Intro. vs. 40. 153. Op. cit., p. 36(1). 154. Op. cit., Intro, vs. 29. 155. Op. eit., p. 81 (9ff.).