Jinamanjari 1995 09 No 12

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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Emotions and Feelings
Curiosity
The curiosity of the Nagaravadhu flocking at the windows to get a glimpse of Ravana entering the city after his victory over Yama has been beautiful described (8.276-280). Their gestures, movements and dialogues soue quite natural (82.76-280). There is a similar description with very few new ideas, on the occasion of Lavana and Ankusa's entry into the city of Adyodhya. Even the words and phrases of the preceding description have been repeated (107.50-56).
Panic
The poet describes the panic among the raksasa women. The Vanara soldiers unexpectedly enter the city of Lanka. The women of the city get agitated and confused. There is a sudden flurry and turmoil. Women make a cry of alram. They lose the awareness of their ornaments and garments. But even here the poet could not lose the sight of the charming physiognomy of beautiful women, because it is traitionally associated with them (6.18.26).
Madness
There is a description of Rama's insanity. It is quite natural. Rama loses his hold on the faculty of reason at the sudden death of Laxmana who had been so near and dear to him throughout his life. He embraces the dead body, gets it bathed, brings it to the parlour and proposes to feed it with delicious dishes. He offers wine to it and entertains it. Rama's insanity springs from his failure to believe that Laxmana is really dead, one is so reluctant to believe such hard realitites even though they ares wrought before one's bare eyes (113.1-12).
Rama perceives the insanity of others-deliberately enacted and then gradually he comes to realize his own by perceiving similarity between his own and their deeds. How natural is the psychological treatment by which Rama gets cured (113.28-45).
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