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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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
shown their own influence under the circumstances, the latter having had the upper hand and instead of consoling, Samaraketu disheartens him without feeling the grain of sympathy for his pitiable condition, getting thereby the censure of being uselessly exasperated. Even though enjoying the same status as Samaraketu he bears a great contrast to the latter in so far as on the loss of the sight of Harivāhana by the mysterious Device of the elephant, he does not feel the pinch of the chagrin likely to be felt on the loss of a dear friend and unlike Samaraketu in order to play adjunct to him in searching out the prince. Throughout the adventures of Harivāhana and Samaraketu he remains in charge of the army battalions of Digvijaya and appears at the end when it is all happy about the Hero and the Heroine. .
Of the women characters Madirāvati ranks foremost. Tilakamañjarī and Malayasundari come next to her. Madirāvati has been called the spouse of Maghavāhana, an object of love of the king, the chief among the ladies of the harem, worthy of respect for the whole lot of favourites and born in a mighty lineage of the Kșatriyas consecrated on the forehead.? She was adorned with a demeanour shining with extreme piety. Her form cooperated with her demeanour. Her youth co-ordinated with her modesty, her dignity conformed to here-quanimity." Her supremacy was at its acme, her spirit was lofty. She was above the act of falsehood and did not have the association of the want on women even in a dream. Her fidelity is beyond question in so far as she persisted to perform the religious rites in company of her lord revelling in conjugal bliss.
"इत्युक्ते महर्षिणा मदिरावती त्रपातरलतारया दृशाऽवलोक्य पत्युर्मुखमधोमुखीबभूव"।"
Alludes to her instinctive bashfulness. As a mother her love for her child is beyond its bounds so much so that when her son brought Samaraketu along with him to her chamber after his sire had appointed him as his foster
1. TM. Vol. II pp. 246-249. 2. इयमप्युपजातजन्मा महति मूर्धाभिषिक्तक्षत्रियाम्नाये माननीया समग्रस्यापि मत्परिग्रहस्य सर्वान्तःपुरप्रधानभूता
faxrac 779 999 1541 lbid. Vol. I p. 94. LL. 4-6. 3. परमशुद्धिशालिना शीलेनालंकृता, शीलसहचारिणा रूपेण विनयवता यौवनेन...
प्रशमभाजा प्रभुत्वेन...
uddyfa... Ibid. Vol. I p. 82. LL. 1-3. 4. Vi af aft e r a ferai, 314614 Tang aRituti Ibid. Vol. I p. 82.
LL. 7-8. 5. 31713!.... 2791 7911 GRTTIT Cal, T AG 4 Ta cuf -191 Ibid.
pp. 96-97. p. 96. L. 9. p. LL. I. 6. Ibid. Vol. I p. 101. LL. 2-3.