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of the progeny in the house of Meghavahana is 'iṣṭanāśa' during the blooming youth which resulted in the plaints and complaints, ravings and repressions, resultant upon the sub conscious mind exposed to the admonitions of the mancs, the censure of the royal sovereignty, doleful cries of the subjects thirsting for a future king all being 'aniṣṭāpti' for the ruler of the state in the later age of his life, Agitation, despair, depression and anxiety all being the subsidiary evanescent moods instrumental in this 'anist a' by virtue of the lack of progeny who cannot fill in the gap created by Providence which is hard enough to provide an enjoyer of these luxuries through inheritance. Just as sun feels hot through its own heat the king felt tormented by his own radiance. His regal sovereignty became a peer to the spouse deserted by her husband (durbhaganganeva) not liking her husband.' The indisposed state of the mind of the couple (Meghavāhana and Madirāvati) has been alleged as caused by the state of issuelessness. Its unbearability has become the augmentor of the sorrow. All these and Maghavahana's resolve to go to the wilds is 'aniṣṭāpati' for Madirāvati who feels wilted in form and weeps.1
Dhanapala has depicted pathos admirably in the love intrigues of the two couples who having initial meetings with their beloved's suffer the pangs of separations which are again the 'aniṣṭāpti' resulting in sorrow for the two heroes and reciprocally for the heroines as well. Pathos is greater in the case of Malayasundari who is given to paralysis after the feigned drowning of Samaraketu. It becomes more poignant when she takes to the threefold attempts of self immolation through strangulation, poison taking and drowning etc. Her melancholy state as an ascetic maid equally evokes sympathy as well as pity when she narrates her plaintive account to Harivahana. It be-fell due to her 'aniṣṭāpti' in the form of the intended resolve of Kusumaśckhara to marry her to Vajrayudha as well as by the separation and the news about the supposed demise of Samaraketu. Harivahana's loss through the elephant is another 'aniṣṭāpti' at the outset for Harivahana. But it became an 'iṣṭāpti' for him later on. At that time it was equally an 'aniṣṭāpti' for Samaraketu as well as the 'iṣṭanāśa'. Samaraketu's
1. प्रतिदिवसमासादितोद्दामप्रौढिना निदाघतपन इव निजतेजसा ताप्यमानो गुणानुरक्तयापि राजलक्ष्म्या दुर्भगाङ्गनेव नारमत। TM. Vol. I p. 80.
2. अस्वस्थताकारणं चावयोर्गुरूपचीयमानसकलसंकल्पितार्थयो:.... प्रायेण नाल्पमप्यपरमस्ति मुक्तवैकमनपत्यतादुःखम् ।
Ibid. Vol. I p. 94 LL.
3.
Ibid. Vol. I p. 94. L. 10 p. 95. L.-I.
4. इयमपि च कल्याणी किमिति म्लानदेहा पाणितल - संक्रान्तकज्जलकलंकपिशुनिताश्रुप्रमार्जना सद्यो विरतेव रोदनात् विज्ञायते, कच्चिन सम्पन्नः प्रयत्नसंरक्षितस्यार्थस्य कस्यचिदतर्कितो विनाश: । Ibid vol. i. p. 93. LL. 4-6.
