Jinamanjari 1995 09 No 12

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

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We have glimpses of sambhoga Srngara in Sita's coming to Rama after (28.121-122) svayamvara ceremony, Lankasundari's surrender to Hanumat (52.19-23) and Rama's reunion with Sita at Lanka (76.12-16).
There are instances of Vipralambha Srngara also.
The raksasis in Lanka are bidding farewell to their men proceeding to the battle field. Here we find a juxta-position of the super-ego on one hand and an urge to live an instinctive and spontaneous life on the other. Some raksasi is asking her husband not to flee away from the battlefield, for a life in the flesh is sweeter jo them than honour and heroic glory. It is the pang of separation that dominates the scene (56.13-19).
One is led to think that the revels of raksasa couples and bidding of farewell by raksasis described have their genesis in the similar descriptions of the Setubandha (10.56-82 and 12.45-52) respectively.
The sorrow of separation from one's beloved is exemplified in Rama's and Sita's pining for each other (44.51-66 and 53.21-26). In the description of love lorn Pavananjaya there is a mere enumeration of the ten stages of love (15.49-51).
The sufferings of Bhamandala and Ravana from the pangs of separation from Sita, described (28.10-11 and 46.81-84) are the examples of Srngarabhasa. Simply the conventional stages of love sickness have been mechanically produced.
Sentiment of Pity
The old Kancuki of Dasaratha gives a vivid and picturesque description of his own decrepitude with striking similes. He is like an old and worn out cart, his eyes deceive him like selfish friends, his ears are like disobedient sons, his teeth have fallen down like the seeds of a gourd, his arms are like the trunks of elephants hardly able to raise food to his mouth, his legs cannot carry him fast because they are like unfaithful wives and above all he has got none to rely on except his walking stick (29.20-29). This pitiable condition of the chamberlain
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