Book Title: Jayantika
Author(s): Bakulbhushan Mahakavi
Publisher: Human Resource Development Government of India

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________________ xix butcher cuts the head of the boy as a matter of his duty and cuts his own head also. Jayantikā proceeds to cut her own head. Goddess Durgā appears and revives the life of all the three. Jayantikā who had assumed the form of Sukesha reverts back to Jayantikā. Tāpasi who was originally Sukesha becomes Sukesha. This real Sukesha is put on the throne at Chitrapura. Then, Jivasena proceeds to meet his mother Varamālini who lived in an Asrama outside the city of Aribhikara. He enters the city welcomed by the old Minister and ascends the throne. Hansadhvaja who was temporarily put on the throne in view of the long absence of Jivasena vacates. Virasena the son of Jivasena is made to ascend the throne at Hemapur since Satyakirti the father of Jayantikā had no male issue. Thus the story ends with a happy note. This part of the Story has in it more supernatural elements and miracles. Change of Sex which is no longer a miracle nowadays is brought about here by supernatural means. Some of the well-known motifs current in Indian epics and folk tales such as an orphan child being brought up by a compassionate person, Father going to the extent of killing his own Son in discharge of his duty, the husband being lost in the forest leaving the wife alone are introduced here. In the stories of Sakuntala, Harischandra and Nala these motifs are fully developed. The author of this Prose romance has brought these together in one Story and put them in a different setting altogether. Lusty men being aggressive towards charming women and its leading to adverse consequences to both is delineated in this work more than once. Women and Children suffering because of the folly of men is also depicted. But the women !

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