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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
crown prince even though she has been described by Dhanapala as the receptacle of love of Meghavähana, catering to the latter's entire affluence of Trivarga or the threefold alms of human existence such as Dharma, Artha and Kama. She had provided him with all the earthly amenities and luxuries. His youth was fruitful owing to her. His dalliance had its taste brimming to the full. His sports were enviable. The great occasions of joy brought him glee. The world of creatures looked rosy to him. He adhered to the fiat of Cupid and took to all the facilities of the life of a householder. The reason for the moroseness (a) of the queen was nothing but the anguish born of issuelessness even when she remained by his side every moment in the midst of the group of kinsfolk, performing all the religious rites meet for a housewife,"
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Too much of indulgence has been described as the main cause for the issulessness of the king as predicted by the Vidyadhara sage, who suggests to him to the austere penance of propitiating Śrī who could bestow on him the boon fulfilling his cherished desire. He handed over the armour fuming a talisman to the king muttering the holy syllables of charm quite slowly in his cars. The boon by Śrt conferred on the king' he observes due formalities of approaching his queen quite ceremoniously. Having reached the Śuddhanta (Harem) and seen Madirävati there he made her sit on his own golden seat and indulging in all types of wheedling artifices reminding her of undergoing all the inconveniences of her separation from him he applied unguents, decked her with ornaments, applied forehead mark to her, provided car-peduncles to her and even decorated her with a crest-chaplet with his own hands." The preliminaries ere to the coition have been literally depicted.
He brought her to the bed having embraced her close-her, who gave a charming look twice as before on account of those morbid transformations caused by passions born in excess from her love for her lover (i.e. the king) and manifested immediately on account of his assuming that garb looking glamorous, having seen her for long with a steadfast gaze. And slept there along with her. The night remaining very little he saw in dream the elephant, the vehicle of Indra sucking milk having drawn it again and again. with the hand, the huge lotus, as it were, placed on the pitcher-like breasts.
1. TM Vol. I p. 94.
2. भुक्तभूयिष्ठमधुना वर्तते तवापत्यसन्ततिप्रतिबन्धकमदृष्टम् । TM Vol. 1p. 97.
3. TM Vol. 1 pp. 98-99 रक्षामन्त्राक्षरमयकवचमुपकर्णशूलमनुच्चकैरुच्चरिताक्षरपदस्तां विद्यान्यवेदयत्।
4. TM Vol. I p. 153.
5. सविलेपनां सालंकारा सतिलकां सावतंसौ सशेखरां स्वकरेण तां चकार। TM Vol. II p. 178.
