Jain Journal 1985 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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herence to his original has enabled Mandana to capture the depth of feelings and emotional and physical torments of his characters in pithy verses in a manner that he compares creditably well with the original.6
That the Kādambari-darpaņa forms an excellent epitome of Bana's Kādambari is to restate the obvious. The divergences are too insignificant to admit of serious consideration or to introduce anything new in the body of the work. Of the four sections, the first summarises preliminaries apart the story from Tarapida to Mahasveta's account upto the advent of her youth related to Candrapida in her first encounter with him. The second section carries the narrative to Candrapida's visit to Kadambari on Hemakuta, preceeded by the touching account of Mahasveta's meeting with Pundarika and the latters succumbing to his emotional upsurge. Candrapida's meeting with Kadambari followed by the lovely description of their love, the prince's return to his capital and his journey back to Kailasa apparently in search of his friend Vaisampayana form the contents of the third section. Section four deals with the rest of the narrative.
Mandana's indebtedness to Bana is evident at every step. There is hardly any verse in KD that does not pulsate with Bana's phraseology while it is neither feasible nor advisable to detail all such similarities, some of the more glaring may be reproduced to drive home the quantum of debt Mandana owes to the author of the Kādambari.
While describing Candrapida's pursuit of the Kinnara couple and his consequent arrival at Kailasa, Bana remarks :
atra grhyate’tra grhyate idam grhitamidam gļhitamityatirabhasakrstacetā mahājavatayā turangamasya muhurtamātreņaiva...pancadasayojanamātramadhvānam jagămastaccānuvadhyamānam kinnaramithunamavalokayata evāsya sammukhāpatitamacalatungaśikharamāruroha.?
With it may be compared the following verses from KD mahtyā bānchyāvisto vājinā vāyuramhasa/ pratyavahyadanitah panthānam pañcayojanam//I. 82 idam grhitamityeva tasyānudravatah purah/ ardreh śikharamatyuccamaśvo' gamyamavāpa tat//I. 83
6 Compare :
haraksalatamorasit parivrttiryathavayoh/ tasminnavasare jata tathaiva manasorapill. II. 34. sarvamantargatam vrttam tattad vyakuryati tayoh/
drstirmadhye yayau dutyam yatayatam vitanvatill ? Kadambari, op. cit., p. 193.
III. 49.