Lilavai

SR No.: 002796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 500
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

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is contradicted.' 11) Nagarjuna was a Siddha-purusa and had studied under Padalipta. He became a Kala-guru, teacher in arts, of Satavähana. Queen Candralekha had accepted Nagarjuna as her brother. He could fly in the air. After propitiating Vasuki Nāga, he came to possess a miraculous liquid (rasa). 12) Pädalipta once came to Prati ṣṭhāna on the bank of Godavari and found in king Satavahana an outstanding personality, pre-eminent among the learned, brave, philanthropic and romantic. He proved to the audience his learning and wisdom. He composed there Nirvaṇa-kālikā, Praśna-prakāśa His Campu Tarangalola was highly appreciated by the king and his. assembly. But a courtezan had no words of praise for him. Pädalipta pretended to die; and when his body reached her door on way to the burning ground, she simply wept and cursed the cruel god of death who snatched away Padalipta like that."
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INTRODUCTION
Apart from the above legendary bits of information included in Prabandhas, there are available even some independent poems glorifying the life and acts of Salivahana. The Vikramodaya, which celebrates the glories of Vikramaditya, devotes one chapter to Śalivahana. According to Viracarita Salivahana of Pratisthāna is depicted as a conquerer of Vikramaditya of Ujjain. It describes the heroic achievments of Sūdraka, the friend and afterwards coregent of Salivahana and subsequently of his son, and his ultimate usurpation of the throne. According to Śivadāsa's Salivahanacarita, Salivahana conquered Vikrama and married his daughter Madayanti from whom he had a son Trailokyasundara who married Padmini, daughter of king Suryasimha of Simhala. He performed a horse-sacrifice. There is one more Salivahanacarita of an unknown author. Its plot is summarised thus: 'Salivahana was the grandson of a Kṣatriya, Latasimha by name, whose residence was Pratisthana-nagara on the banks of the Narmadā. Sālivahana was born to his
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1 Namely, नवसयतेणउहि समइक्कतहिं वीरमुक्खाओ । पज्जोसवणचडत्थी कालयहि तो टविया ॥ Prabandhakosa p. 74.
2 पृथिवी विचरन् पृथिवीस्थानपत्तने सातवाहननृपस्य कलागुरुर्जातः । Purātana-prabandha-samgraha, p. 91.
सीस कहवन फुट्टै जमस्स पालितय हरंतस्स । जस्स मुहनिज्झराओ तरंगलाला नई बूढा
Puratana-prbandha samgraha, p. 94. The original Tarangavai or Tarangalola of Padalipta is no more available but there is found today a later digest of it in Prakrit.
M. Krishnamachariar: History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, pp 275-76.
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