Sambodhi 1984 Vol 13 and 14

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, Ramesh S Betai, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Sudarshan Kumar Shara
norm but Vatsaraja having been caught alive by Salankayana Mahasena directed his whole hearted attention unto the rescue operation of his life got into jeopardy through injuries in war and, therefore, disowned him also. Disgruntled and disgusted he must bave gone home to the utter dismay of Kasirāja. Vasavadatta having been banded over to Udayana stationed along with her in prison in Ujjayini, Yaugandharayana managed through his skill of espionage to take away Udayana along with Vasantaka and Vasavadatta on the Cow-elephant Bhadravati the female vehicle of Vasavadatta the anaguisaksika marital tic having been solemnised through a painting of Udayana and Vasavadatta later on sent as a memoir to Udayana on the proclaimed supposed death of Vasava. datta devised as a ruse to secure the military alliance of Duršaka the Magadharaja whose sister Padmavati also was made the second spouse of Udayana by the astute Yaugandharāyana (Act VI of SVD).
This act of Mahasena has been summarised by Bhavabhūti in his Malatımadhava (Act-II) in the speech of Ramandaki. Illustrating the voluntary choice of Dusyanta as her husband by Sakuntala and of Paru. ravah by Urvast Bhavabhūti illustrates the point that Vasavadatta originally having been stipulated as the would-be spouse of Sanjaya, the king (Sanjayaya räjñe) by her father, made herself over to Udayana. This obviously affords a clue to the critic that Sañjaya' the King for whom she had been reserved was none other than Kasiraja' whose courier Jaivanti the Upadhyaya had been exceptionally treated of by Mahāsena but not given a final and favourable consent in preference to the couriers of the Kings of Magadha, Anga or Vanga, Saurastra, Mithila and Sūrasena.
“As-matsambaddho māgadhah Kaširājo" in Cff 5 above also can afford an equivocal clue to the critic to construe this Kafiraju' as the King of Magadha.
In Act I of" Viņāvāsavadattam" of anonymous authorship and controv. ersial date the theme of PRY Act-II has an elaborate but varying version of events. Bharata rohaka and Rāja (Mahāsena) Pradyota are displayed as talking to each other on the topic of a choice for the marital tie of Vasavadaita as to who stood foremost among those who were cager to establish kinship with them, whereupon Bharata-rohaka is described as denouncing the claim of any one amongst those in so far as they all had been endowed wito Pollution by dint of the grace of Lord Sarva (i.e. Siva) simply because Sanjaya the son of the lord of Aimakas was one who ejaculated blood and was addicted to drinking; Jayararına the