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Critical and Comparative Notes
रत्नसानु:-Name of the mountain Meru:
'मेरुः सुमेरुहेमाद्री रत्नसानुः सुरालयः' इत्यमरः । V.12 That the Creator did not make him a pretty woman is really speaking due to the influence of successful ascetics. Otherwise, how could even mention about austerities destroying sins find scope in the three worlds ?
- अपरिचितमपि चिरपरिचितमिव मे हृदयम्-.-- That Tapasa-Kumāra, who is no other than Mallikā, is of course. very familiar to him. for a long time. न नाम....परिचयमपेक्षन्ते-Every action or work does not indeed demand fami
liarity.
_Cr. अविज्ञातेऽपि बन्धौ हि बलाद् प्रह्लादते मनः । -किरात. XI. 8 v. 13 One's mind is firmly. fixed on something although it is , seen only for a moment. Even a recently or newly born child is fond of its mother's breast.
V. 14 In the case of women the stigma of not being liked by one's lover does not attach to them with reference to all lovers. A mass of snow (हिमानो) is hated by trees but loved by a sheaf or barley corn.
. दौर्भाग्य-Mallinātha when commenting on 'सौभाग्य' (प्रियेषु सौभाग्यफला हि चारुता । कुमार V.I) praphrases it as "प्रियवाललभ्यम्' Following him we may take दौर्भाग्यम् to mean just the oppisite of सौभाग्यम् प्रियवाल्लभ्यम् i... प्रियद्वेष्यता or or प्रियद्वेष्यत्वम्
P.27 कमभिजनं...तपोविधिः? Such passages remind one of Bana's style in his Kadambari 'अहो भयकौतुककारी कथासन्निवेशः ।' In his Nirbhayabhimavyayoga' Ramacandra has a similar sentence : अहो भयकौतुककारी कथारसः । (p.5)
“The arrangement of situations or incidents in the plot excites fear and admiration." The poet pats himself on his back for his skill in plotconstruction. v.15 One will preserve one's greatness, learning, nobility and power of discriminating between good and bad until the fire of the accursed Cupid (fit. the five-arrowed, god of love) does not torment his body-frame.
This verse is adopted by Rāmacandra from Bhartshari's Srngäraśaraka (v. 76) The Sanskrit commentator comments on this verse as follows:
तावदिति । महत्त्वं महानुभावत्वम्, पाण्डित्यं प्राज्ञत्वम्, कुलीनत्वं महाकुलप्रसूतत्वम् । कुलात्खः' इति खप्रत्ययः। विवेकिता कर्तव्याकर्तव्यविचारचतुरत्वं च, तावत, तावत्पर्यन्तमेव भवतीति शेषः । यावत् हतो नीचः अश्लाध्यतापादकत्वान्निकृष्टः । पञ्च अरविन्दादय इषवो बाणा यस्य
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