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The Target of Criticism in Bhamaha's Kavyalankara
ach music to Vasavadatta * The artificial clephant was a mechanical device with a number of soldiers bidden it it" These detals tally with those enumerated by Bhamaha
Justifying Udayana's temptation for the extraordipary elephant, Somdevi mentions that the king was in need of such an elephant that could face and fight the lovincible famous elephant Nadagin of Candamabăsebr whom he would then be able to subdue 75 And this temptation was so powerful that he would not listen to the advice from bis minister Thus. Samadeva has absolved the ministers from the possible charge of negligence or want of faithfulness
(1 [defence of Udayana's entering the forest elmust alone, although handful of spies accompanied him, Somadeva puts forth the reason that this was due to the fear that the elephant would be alarmed otherwise 77
(lv) As a justification for Udayana's failure to distinguish between the real elephant and an artificial one, Somadeva declares that when the sples showed the elephant to Udayana from a distance, he found It to be almost
real one.78 which impression precluded any scope for doubt or suspicion Thenceforward as he proceeded alone and, says Somadeva, since the king's mind was engrossed in the threefold meotal activities like playing the lute, thloking out fresh melodies meant to captivate the heart of the elephant, and glaging melodiously, and since it was almost dark due to the Sunser be did not notice that it was but a fake elephant
(v) Narrating the situation in which Udayana was captured alive and spread, Somadeva tells us that in the first nastance Udayana was made to go a long distance in pursuit of the elephant Then suddenly the armoured
78 KSS, III, 11, 28
एव कृत्वा च सचिवान् वत्सराजो जगाद स । यामि चण्डमहासेनमिह बदला बयामि । 74 Op at, II, v, 6 _____त चान्तवीरपुरुषै कुरवा छन् रधिष्ठितम् । विन्ध्याटव्या स निदधे राज्य मन्त्रावर म्॥ 75 Op at,, II, wv, 10
ते चेद् गजेन्द्र प्राप्स्यामि प्रतिमल्ल नडागिरे । ततमामहासेमो परयो भवति मे मम्।। 76 Op at, II v, 12
प्रातच मन्त्रिपयन न्यक्कृत्वा गजतृष्णया । पुरस्कृत्यैव तश्षाराम्बको विभाटों प्रति ॥ Op cit, II, 1v, 14-15 प्राप्य विन्ध्याटी तस्य मजस्य क्षोभशया । वत्सराज स सैन्यानि देव बवायत् ॥
चारमात्रसहायस्तु वीणा घोषवी पधत् । मिजव्यसमाविस्तीर्ण विदेश महाबोम् ॥ 78, Op qt, II, rv, 18cd1
गज सत्यगजाभास त ददर्श न भूपति ॥
