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TILAKAMANJARI OF DHANAPALA
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The creeper arbours where in Maithili (Sītā) regaled her mind in company with Trijatā, situated in Lanka, have been referred to.'
The alluvial groves having longing alleviated by Ravaṇa lean through grief on account of refractoriness of Janaki, with cool white sandal arbour welcomed by Kumbhakarna seated there in sleep, with their precincts rendered tawny by the golden shines of their frame by fawns roaming about born from the wombs of female antelopes belonging to the forests come there in association with the deer named Mārīca, their progenitor, with the righteous reign of Bibhīṣaṇa manifested in them, by the ascetic princes residing in the proximous hermitages, undaunted and moving about on account of the ravages of the demons gone to a cease. There is a repetition of the reference to the forest contiguous to Lauhitya (Brahmaputra in Kāmarupa) river from where it was citaramaya actually who actuated by the instigation of Gandharvaka, had assumed the garb of the divine elephant and taken Harivahana away in order to make him a gift over to Tilakamañjarī.2 There is also a reference to the groves on the skirts of Kāñcī as also to the Viśranta (Praśānta) vairāśrama abounding in groves full of trees' etc..
There is a reference to a 'dharmaraṇya' built by Surānanda, the minister (of Meghavahana) abounding in bulbous roots and fruits of sweet taste available quite easily, with way farers and guests taking shelter therein.*
3. RIVERS AND LAKES
Of the rivers Dhanapāla has mentioned Sarayu which also occurs in Rāmāyaṇa, Bhāgavata Puraṇa, Mahābhārarta,' Panini's Aṣṭādhyāyī,"
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1. TM Vol. II. p. 288.
2. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 392. सः पुनरधुना मयैव गन्धर्वकप्रार्थितेन भर्तृदुहितुस्तिलकमंज्जर्याः प्राभृतं कर्तुमात्तद्विरदरूपेण लोहित्यतटपर्यन्ताटव्या विनिसृत्य शिविरादसिलतामात्रसहायो भयानकानेकसत्त्व संचारदुखतारमुत्तरदिगन्तकान्तारमाविशत् ।
3. Ibid. Sm. ed. pp. 427. कांचीनगरीपरिसरारामे द्रविडेश्वरसुतादु : खदृश्यमानविश्रान्त (प्रशान्त वैराश्रम) पदेषु ।
4. TM Vol. III. p. 33. p. 33. LL. 5-6
5 Ādikāṇḍa or Bālakāṇda, Sarga XIV Uttarakāṇa, Sarga 123 verse 1.
6. V. 19. 18, IX 8. p. 637. 17; X. 79.9
7. Adi parva. 169-170, p 215
8. VI. 4. 174.
