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NM. Kansara
(w) of the moods affections and the like depicted by Dhanapala the following are noteworthy mental agony of King Meghavabava due to mot of a son (pp. 20-21), the devotion to Lord Rşabba Jina (pp. 39-40); the effect of calamity on different types of persons (p. 41); the grandeur of the Goddess Śr (pp 57-58), the effect of the divine ring on Vajrayudha and the inimical forces (pp 91-92), the effect of new environment on Semaraketu (p. 133); the effect of music on the mad elephant (p. 187); the Intensity of feeling of the soldiers pursuing the mad elephant (p. 187); dejected and tired soldiers (pp 188-189), the effect of an anexpected good news on the dejected soldiers (p. 192), the effect of bad news and change of almosphere in a military camp (p 193), experience of Harivahana during his ride on the flying nad elephant (p. 212), the effect of the advent of youth on different persons (p. 264), mental condition of Malayasundari when she found herself brought to a strange place (p. 265), the effect of love at first sight on Malayasundari (pp. 277-278); the effect on Samaraketu when he secs Malayasundari (pp. 278-279), the treatment of a person saved from the gallows (p. 311); the feeling of a lover's touch to a beloved (pp. 312-313); the reactions of Gandharvadalta on hearing the account of ber daughter being kidnapped and returned by the Vidyadharag (p 327); the effect of poison on a person (p 335), the bindrances in the path of pegance (pp. 399_400), and baste and curiosity (pp 423-424).
It is a measure of Dhanapala's sense of propriety that he has taken atmost care to fully harmonize the descriptions of natural phenomena like the seasons, the day-break, the Sunset and the like, with the psychological mood of the character in the context; the Nature in this process Invariably gets personified and shares the joys and sorrows of the character.
(B) SCENES :
The prominently noteworthy scenes in the TM may be enumerated here. They are King Meghavahana's meeting with the Vidyadhara Muni (pp. 25-37); hış meeting with god Jyalanaprabha (pp. 38-45), which includes int a picture of & sacked Vidyadhara city and its royal palace (pp. 40_41); the king's encounter with the Vetala (pp. 46-52), and with the Goddess Án (pp. 54-61); the night-attack and the consequent flerce battle onding with the capture of Samaraketu (pp. 83-94), falling Priyadarśann being cheght by hand by Taraka and their consequent love and marriage (pp. 127 129); the break of voyage by the Dayal forces, their hullabaloo at the time of landing and camplog (pp. 136-141); the preparatory orders of the maltors to their subordinates just before raising the anchors of their vessels at the start of a vovage (pp. 145-146); Harivahana's meeting with Gandhamka (pp. 164-17), bis encounter with a mad elephant (pp. 185-186); Kamalagupta's Invocation of the help of the divine agency to carry the reply back to Harivabana (p. 194); Samaraketu entering the tomple of
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