Srngaramanjari Katha

SR No.: 002914
Original Sutra Author: Bhojdev
Author: Kalpalata K Munshi
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1959
Total Pages: 312
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 21 MB

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SÃNGĀRAMAÑJARIKATHA
was full of longing on seeing the rumbling masses of clouds as dark as the swarms of bees, possessing a rainbow and continuously pour. ing down water in the form of thousands of rippling rivers.
Then he (VIKRAMASIMHA) experiencing a miserable plight passed his rainy days somehow anxiously, afflicted on the one hand by Madana, on the other by his own love; on the one hand by the rainy season and on the other by remembering her loving gestures
(After sometime MALATIKA sent for VIKRAMASIMHA. He gave her lots of presents. But some thing gave offence to VIKRAMASIMHA and he stopped going to her. His attachment for her lessened day by day. And VIŞAMASILA tells her daughter that the people of Manjişthā Rāga become detached soon, therefore they should not be pressed much).
(28) THUS ENDS THE SECOND TALE OF VIKRAMASIMHA
THE ŚRNGARAMANJARIKATHA COMPOSED BY MAHARAJADHIRAJA-PARAMESVARA-SRIBHOJADEVA.
(THE THIRD TALE OF MADHAVA) Now, when ŚRNGARAMANJARI said "Mother, I remain unsatiated by hearing) these stories narrated by you. Please tell me therefore the means of winning over a person of Kusumbha rāga"VIŞAMAŠILA began:
In the city of Vidiśā there lived a bawd by name BHUJANGAVĂGURĀ. Her daughter's name was KUVALAYAVALI. She was the one abode of beauty, youth, charm, and grace, and her chief aim was to earn money. In that city where she was earning wealth by harlotry turned up by chance a learned brāhmaṇa named MADHAVA, after amassing inexhaustible wealth from Sinhaladvīpa. Hearing of her fame, he sent her the fees and spent with her one night. Being gratified that same night, in the morning he gave her a lot of wealth, thus satisfied her and left her alone as was befitting. After two or three days he was again called by her. He was again served with a bath, food and so on the same way and slept there the same way. Thus being sometimes invited and sometimes sent away, he spent many happy days in her company,
..One day she arranged a gambling party and began draining the resources of MADHAVA. After many days she divested him of all his wealth. When he was pauperised he knew that now she would drive him out, therefore (29) he should act in such a manner that his reputation would not be completely ruined. While he was thus thinking monsoon, which produced torments of love, by the direc