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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPALA
This Vidyā predicted to Patralekhā at night that her daughter Tilakamañjarī was to have for her consort not a Vidyādhara prince but a prince of the terrestrial terrains, the likely paramount sovereign lord of the entire circle of kings.
Despatching couriers and maids skilled in painting Patralekhā feels halfconscious about her success in finding the fruit of her dream attaining to fructification. But still she bears faith by saying -
“The power of Destiny is beyond cognition"! - By doing so, her (i.e. Tilakamañjarī's) gaze may get pinioned on some earthly prince (better than a Vidyādhara one- a fact which seemed apparently beyond her precognition). Struck by sorrow at the loss of Harivāhana, Samaraketu blurts forth a series of expressions which apparently assuming the garb of faithlessness actually pertain to his firm faith in the working of the unforeseen, the auspicious planets and the auspicious marks foreboding certain prosperity in future. His laments go as under:
"Brother! that vision of the auspicious planets has slinked away. The foretelling of the soothsayers, of that type, have vanished away having taken recourse to uselessness.
The effect of the auspicious marks of a paramount sovereign has got bedimmed. All that had been bestowed by the Goddess of royal sovereignty, has gone topsy-turvy on account of the fault of my fortunes void of auspicious marks that I am, in so far as you have met with an accident through that worm of a tusker, endowed with prowess known in the triad of worlds that you’ were."
Man proposes, God disposes, is a saying which is quite true to the fact occurring in the world. Samaraketu had got a fascination for Malayasundari for whom he became impatient to woo within a moment's notice. But Providence had different plant to ride upon. The impatience of the lover prompted the courier to carry the message of modesty before the beloved. The lover was so much swayed down by the charms of the beloved that he started seeing in her the entire store of his heart's repose whereby he made his courier speak out-"In your being favourable to him, the Providence will grow favourable. The deity will feel pleased in case you felt pleased. The
1. Bifer fe dazh: Taufuga afera hafa farfa par PI: TM Vol. III p. 15. 2. yra: fafea: : Tafeyici, a grifort au fufa:
क्षीणश्चक्रवर्तिलक्षणानामनुभावः, विसंवदितमुदितं राज्यलक्ष्म्या विगतलक्षणस्य मे भाग्यदोषेण येन भुवनत्रयख्यात विक्रमस्तस्मादपि करटिकीटादापदं प्राप्तोऽसि TM Vol. III p. 48-49.
