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DHANAPALA AS A PROSE WRITER
Literally construed Sambhoga means the physical union of man and woman. The accessories such as perspiration, horripilation, exasperation, impatience, devices such as stroking with hands and nails, embracing, kissing etc., all form the subject matter of the paragraph under consideration being in other words the dependent and exciting determinants, emotions and ensuants respectively.
He (i.c. Meghavahana) even went to the extent of attracting maidens to distant regions during the dark fortnights2 and resorted to water sports.3 His pangs of separation from his beloved's is equally illustrated in a realistic norm being a pre requisite of Vipralambha.
'Disappointed in his efforts to reconcile with his beloved's playful entreats on account of their having ignored him when prostrate on their feet, on account of the exuberance of their ire, he used to palliate his anguish born of the mind born, reclining on the counter pane of louts petals, at the fountains having the crevices of their interiors darkened by the sprays of water falling ashores.4
Sometimes it so happened that envying his queen he would try to afford the fulfilment of the ardent longings of the domesticated orchard creepers that had put forth flowers out of season exciting thereby his 'alambana' Vibhāva (i.e. the queen) by the parallel insinuation of the 'Uddīpana' Vibhava (i.e. the creepers treated as females) to physical enjoyment and probe into the idea of her having delayed giving birth to a scion of the race."
मकरलक्ष्माणमनुग्राहयितुमागतेन विस्तारितचतुरोक्तिना दूतेनेव नवयौवनेनोपदर्शितेष्वन्द्रियग्रामहारिषु विषयेषु परिभोगलालसं मानसमासंजयामास । तथापि कदाचित् सकुतूहलगृहदेवतादरविलोकितः, कामिनीजनाभरणझात्कारवर्यतूर्यरवसंवर्धितैस्तारतरविलापिनां वैतालिकानामिव शुकन्तानां ध्वनिभिराधीयमानरभसः, सरभसदशनाग्रदंशदलितदन्तच्छदमदयकचग्रहोल्लसद्भ्रुकुटी भूषितललाटदेशमावेशपरवशप्रवृत्तकरप्रहारव्याहरन्मणि
वलयमविरलोद्गतश्रमस्वेदतिम्यद्रोमाञ्चकवचमनवरतमुक्तकौसुम-शरासारव्यपदेशादुपजाततुष्टिनेव
मानसभुवा देवेन पात्यामानपुष्पवृष्टिरुत्कृष्टकरणप्रयोगमणीयमत्यद्भुतं रतसमरमाततान । TM Vol. I pp. 71-72. p. 71. LL. 7. p. 72. LL. 1-7. para 93. L.D. Series ed. p. 10. LL. 23-32.
1. स्तम्भप्रलयरोमांचा: स्वेदो वैवर्ण्यवेपथु अश्रुवैस्वर्यमित्यष्टौ स्तम्भोऽस्मिन्निष्क्रियांगता, प्रलयो नष्टसंज्ञत्वं शेषाः सुव्यक्त लक्षणाः ॥ Daśarūpa IV 5.6. p. 266 ed. p. by Dr. Śrīnivāsa śāstrī. Published by Rati Ram Shastri, Subash Bazar Meerut, 1966.
2. बहुल प्रदोषाभिसारिका: सुदूरमाचकर्ष । TM Vol. I p. 73. LL. 1-2.
3. जलक्रीडामकरोत् । Ibid. p. 732-3.
4. कदाचिन्मन्युगौरवादतिलंघितपादपतनविभ्रमाणं
प्रेयसीनां
प्रति निष्प्रत्याश: प्रान्तनिपतदम्बुधारान्धकारितोदरकुहरेषु धारागृहेषु विसिनीपलाशस्रस्तरशायी मनसिशयसंतापमत्यवाहयत् । Ibid. Vol. I pp. 73-74. p. 73. L. 5. p. 74. LL. 1-2.
5. कदाचिद्देव्या सार्धमारब्धस्पर्धः स्वपरिगृहीतानां गृहोद्यानवीरुधामकालकुसुमोद्गतिकारिणस्तांस्तान्दोहदयोगानदात् । TM Vol. I p. 74.
प्रसादनं
