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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
as Brahmacarya, Grhastha and Vānaprastha. The sage spoke smilingly to the king -
“King! You are extremely anxious and desirous of taking her to the forest just now. Do take to the ritual of muttering auspicious syllables and charms. May she obtain the boon for a son bestowed by the Goddess of Royal sovereignty pleased by propitiation. May she obtain by virtue of that a son of radiance circumbiating the triad of worlds by dint of her glory. May she see his boyhood gladdening the entire Universe. May she experience the bliss of service of her feet brought about by his spouse folk. Anon would she proceed to the forest in the later age accompanied by you started off having made the subjects over to him and developed the affluence of your Kingdom on him fit to bear the brunt of the Universe on the bow strung up properly.”'
The Samnyāsa Aśrama has been likewise referred to in the following lines :
“Our effort, too, is here in this very regard or else what duty becomes recumbent upon the recluses (yatis) emancipated from all avocations, in point of activities dealing with the duties of a householder." 2
On seeing the divine Shrine Samaraketu's mind is thrilled with ecstasy whereupon the surge of thoughts brings to his mind the point that the religious shrines are occupied by those who renounce material life and take to asceticism. That is why he says -
"Meritorious in the world are they by whom even the kingdom having been given up, even renunciation having been resorted to, even the victuals of fruits and bulbous roots having been taken up, even the torment of sylvan abode difficult of bearing, having been borne up, even the separation from the friends and kinsmen having been endured, even the associations of vertebrates having been suffered, the end is invited here with repose having been taken here."
1. मुनिरपि मनागुपजातहासः राजन् ! अतिमात्रमुत्कस्तवमिदानीमेव वनमिमां नेतुमिच्छसि, विधेहि तावन्मन्त्रजपविधिम्
आराधितप्रसन्नया राजलक्ष्म्या वितीर्णमाप्नोतु पुत्रवरमियम्, आसादयतु तत्प्रभावेण भुवनत्रयख्यातमहसमात्मजम्, पश्यतु तदीयमानन्दितसकलसंसारकुमारभावम् अनुभवतु तद्वधुजनोपजनितानि चरणपरिचर्यासुखानि ततो धृताधिज्य धनुषि भुवनभारधारणक्षमे तत्र निक्षिप्य निजराजसम्पदं समर्प्य प्रजाः प्रसिथतेन त्वयैव सहिता गमिष्यति पश्चिमे वयसि
0441 TM Vol. I pp. 102-03. 2. अस्माकमप्येतदर्थ एवायमारम्भः, अन्यथा गृहस्थकार्येषु कर्त्तव्येषु सर्वारम्भनिवृत्तानां को यतीनामधिकार:? TM
Vol. I p. 103. 3. पुण्यभाजो जगति, यैः परित्यज्य राज्यमपि, गृहीत्वा पारिव्राज्यमपि, भुक्त्वा फलमूलमयाहारलेशमपि, विषह्य दुःसहं
वनवासक्केशमपि, अङ्गीकृत्य बान्धवसुहृद्वियोगमपि, प्राप्य पक्षिजातियोगमपि, कृतस्थितिभिरत्र कालः प्रेर्यते। TM Vol. II pp 322-323.
