Sambodhi 1978 Vol 07

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 89

Latīya Apabhramsa
सुहड-कोडि थरहरिय कर (१ क्रोड) करम्म कडक्किय ।। अन (? त)ल-विन(?त)ल धसमसिय पुहवि सहु प्रलय पलट्टिय ।। गज्जति गयण कवि आम भणइ सुरमणि फणमणि इक्क हुय । मा गहिहि म गहि म म गहि म गहि मुंच मुछ जयसिंह तुह ॥
(Upadeśa-tarangiņi, I.v. 202.p.64) It describes the upheavals that shook the very foundationg of the earth and that were caused by Jayasimha's act of twisting his moustache (signifying an aggressive gesture forboding march against an opponent).
The amount of similarity in wording, form and meaning between this verse and the PR. verse cited in the Sahityamīmāṁsā is so great that the conclusion that one of them is written in imitation of the other becomes inevitable. Moreover, the last line of the Upadeśa-tarangiņi verse is nearer to the last line of the verse-text according to the Nāgarī Pracāriņi recension rather than to that as found in the Sahityamīmāṁsā. We are inclined to think that the author of the Upadeśatarangini has used in the present case some earlier Siddharāja-Prabandha, that utilized some recension of PR. (different from the one available to the author of the Sahityamimāṁsā) for this purpose.
In this connection it is to be pointed out that there was a regular stylistic convention, onwards at least from the tenth century, to praise the great power or, stength of a roy:1 hero by describing in exaggerated terms the march of his armies (and in the later bardic style, with onomatopoetic verbs) in terms of the devastating effects it generates on the agencies responsible for maintaining the stability of the earth. In Rajasekhara's Balarāmāyaṇa Rāvaņa's act of stringing Śiva's bow is extolled thus :
पृथ्वि स्थिरा भव भुजंगम धारयैनां त्वं कूर्मराज तदिदं द्वितयं दधीथाः ॥ दिक्कुजराः कुरुत तत्रितये दिधीषां देवः करोति हरकामु कमाततज्यम् ।।
(Balarāmāyaṇa, I. v. 49)
In similar style and terms the army's march is described at several pilaces in the Old Gujarati poem Bhurateśvara-Bahubali - Räsa, lo composed in 1185 A.D. by Salibhadra-suri. Consider the following passages :
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(Bharate". v. 16c.)