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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
Following on Dhanapāla says the king marked the distinguished lines on the palm of the child which predicted his future paramountsy. In lieu thereof he released all the captives and arranged a celebration of festal melee for one complete month.'
Nāmakaraņa
Dhanapäla has illustrated this sacrament in as many as two cases - those of Harivāhana and Malayasundarī.
In case of Harivāhana he refers to the naming ceremony having been performed on the tenth day after the birth of the child when the Sasthījāgara? (the waking on the sixth day after the birth of a child when the creator is supposed to enter the mother's chamber and write the child's destiny on its forehead). On the tenth day he arranged the adoration in all the shrines of gods to be performed, honoured the group of friends and relatives, paid obeisance to the preceptors or elders, bestowed in charity on the Brāhmaṇas averse to wordly gains, thousands of kine accompanied by calves and caparisoned with ornaments and heaps of gold. Since he had seen the vehicle of Indra (Satamanyu) in a dream, he took cognizance of this fact accordingly and in line with the psychology of the dream gave the name, ‘Harivāhana' to the child supported by the limitation in sense as well as in sound in communion with the one part of his own name.
Malayasundari while narrating her woeful tale to Harivāhana calls herself the sole scion of Kusumasekhara and Gandharvadattā, the king and queen of Kāñci.
She further narrates that as soon as she was born she was addressed in plain words before the king, by the soothsayer Vasurāta by name, well honoured on account of his predictions coming out true a thousand-fold, knowing well the real imports of the whole of the lore of auspicious omens, being foremost of all the fortune-tellers his eyes brimming with water of tears born.of joy over the fruit of the circumstance (prevailing at that time)
1. TM. Vol. II pp. 185-186. 2. Ibid. Vol. II p. 196. 3. Monier Williams under Şaşthījāgara. 4. अतिक्रान्ते च षष्ठीजागरे समागते च दशमेऽह्नि कारयित्वा सर्वनगरदेवतायतनेषु पूजाम, मानयित्वा मित्रज्ञातिवर्गम्,
अभ्यर्च्य गुरुजनम् दत्त्वा, समारोपिताभरणाः सवत्साः सदृस्रशो गाः सुवर्ण च प्रचुरमारम्भनि:स्पृहेभ्यो विप्रेभ्य: स्वप्ने शतमन्युवाहनो वारणपतिर्दृष्ट इति संप्रधार्य तस्यैव स्वप्नस्य सदृशमात्मीयनाम्नश्चैकदेशेन समुदायवाच्येन चार्थेन
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