Book Title: Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift
Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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________________ Sāra, A-sara, Sam-sära 147 the joy of the play, so that even ascetics cherish the desire to become absorbed in it." (Edgerton) (4-1-4) The plighted word is called the sāra : Samsāre 'sāratāsāre vācā sāra-samuccayah vācā vicalită yasya sukrtaṁ tena hāritam || (Vikramacarita Brief Recention of 24, p. 183, lines 20-21) "In this wholly unprofitable round of existence (a plighted) word is the only thing of importance. Whosoever breaks his word loses his acquired merit.". (Edgerton) (4-1-5) Renunciation is recommended. He who seeks vainly after sāra in samsāra is betrayed and resorts to detachment (vairāgya), renouncing the world : Saṁsāram eva nihsāram drstvā sāra-didrksayā | pravrajanty akrtodvāhāh paraṁ vairāgyam āsritāḥ || (Nāradaparivrājaka Upanisad 3. O. Schrader ed., p. 139, lines 2-3) "Seeing that samsāra is truly without substance, people are imbued with intense detachment and desirous of seeing the substance, renounce while they are still unmarried." (Olivelle) (4-2) Though the following passages do not contain the word sāra as such, what is meant there has a similar purport. (4-2-1) Corresponding to (4-1-2) above, which praises the enjoyment of women, we have a verse in the Malatīmādhava, where the hero condemns a murderer of Mālatī, considering his beloved as if sāra. We notice that in the case of Bhavabhūti the tone is much more serious than Vikramāditya ! Asāram samsāras parimușita-ratnam tribhuvanam | nirālokam lokam marana-saranam bāndhava-janam || adarpaṁ kandarpam jana-nayana-nirmāņam aphalam jagaj jīrņāranyaṁ katham asi vidhātum vyavasitah || (Mālatīmādhava 5.30)

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