Tilakamanjari

SR No.: 022659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 504
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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TILAKAMANJART OF DHANAPĀLA
dandlings of the nurses and cajoleries of his mates. He was initiated to education at six and returned home at the age of sixteen when his sire performed his consecration. Being the only and the pampered son he has been depicted as accommodating and suave, serene and calm in so far as he does not decline the offer of an association with Samaraketu brought as a war prisoner by Vajrāyudha from Kāñcī, by Meghavāhana according to whom he (i.e. Samaraketu) was a little more in virtues than Harivāhana and a better substitute for a reliable man amongst his kinsfolk with the result that he was made his close confidant like Vaišampāyana of Candrāpīda. He was to treat him patiently and cordially in weal as well as woe. In teeth of opposition he was not to feel offended by him. He was to treat him as his secret counsel in matters of policy and above all he was to deem him a brother, a servant, a minister and an associate. He (i.e. Harivāhana) did not feel any pinch on it when his sire, Meghavāhana proclaimed Samaraketu as the overlord of the Angas a subdivision of the kingdom distributed between the two, the whole of Uttarāpatha consisting of mandalas such as Kāśmīra falling to the lot of Harivāhana himself. Rather he felt pleased over it and passed some of his days in company of Samaraketu quite jovially and pleasantly sometimes introducing him to his mother and sometimes to others and enjoying the gifts and compliments from the subsidiary vassals and other subject dignitaries. Even Samaraketu did not feel elated even the least when being seen by the king with the undistinguished love of a son.' He took after Harivāhana's virtues in all respects barring aside the prowess of arms and served him day and night with unflinching devotion raised to
1. TM. vol. II, pp. 182-189. 2. वत्स! एष समरकेतुर्गुणैः समधिकं समं चात्मबन्धुवर्गे प्रधानपुरुषमपश्यता मया तवैव सहचरः परिकल्पितः।
अन्वहम् चायमापत्स्वपरिहारेण, संपत्स्वादरातिशयेन, समानगुणेषु गौरवोत्कर्षेण, विवादेषु पक्षग्रहणेन, नूतनार्थलाभेषु संविभजनेन, नर्मस्वमर्मोद्धिटनेन मन्त्रणेष्वदूरीकरणेन, दारसंनिधावविकारदर्शनेन। प्रणयकलिकोषेषु स्वयमनुनयेन, उत्सवेष्वग्रपूजासंपादनेन, प्रारब्धवस्तुनिर्वहणेषु स्तुतिप्रपंचनेन प्रतिपन्नकार्यष्वविसंवादनेन, सर्वत्र चातिविश्वासदर्शनेन परं संख्यमानेयः, एष ते भ्राता च भृत्यश्च सचिवश्च, सहचरश्च। TM. Vol. II. pp. 230-231. p. 230. LL.
4-8. p. 231. LL. 1-4. 3. राज्ञा समादिष्टः सुदृष्टिनामाऽक्षपटलिकः प्रविश्य पट्टकारोपितनिरवशेषमभ्यर्णवर्तिभिरनेकैः कश्मीरादि-मण्डलप्रतिबद्धैः
प्रधाननगरग्रामैरुपेतं कुमारभुक्तावखिलमुत्तरापथमर्पयांबभूव, समरकेतोश्च सर्वदायसहितानङ्ग-जीवनेङ्गादिजनपदान्
प्रायच्छत्। Ibid. Vol. II pp. 231-32. p. 231. L. 10. p. 232. LL. 1-3. 4. एवं च दर्शितप्रसादेन नृपतिना प्रतिदिनसमापाद्यमाननवनवसत्कारयोः...एकत्र कल्पिताशनस्नानासनशयनयोः
सदृशवेषालंकारधारिणोः शाक्यशिष्ययोरिवानुपजातविप्रयोगदुःखयोः सुखमया इव, धृतिमया इव अमृतमया इव
प्रीतिमया इवातिचक्रमुः कतिपये दिवसा:~ Ibid. Vol. II pp. 232-234. p. 232. L. 5. p. 234. L. 2-4. 5. यथोक्तर प्रकटितप्रसादेन नृपोतना दृश्यमानोऽपि सुनिर्विशेषमोषपि समरकेतुर्नोत्सेकमगमत्। Ibid. p. 234. LL.
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