Tilakamanjari

Author(s): Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications

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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
Kṛṣṇa) getting lost even when residing in the middle of the unfathomable repertory of water (i.e. the ocean), when his hosts of armies started off in the Autumn Season on all sides, with a desire to escheat the fortunes of the opponents, creating an apprehension in the minds of the people that the erstwhile Rainy season had come back with group of rainbows formed by the tassels of rays shooting forth from the crest jewels of the kings shaken from their lion seats with fever generated among the people by the clatter of the cavities of the hoofs of the steeds vociferous on account of the fall of the heaps of hail stones scattered by the terrible squall, with the interiors of the quarters, rendered jagged by the stretches of the streaks of lightning in the form of scimitars balanced on the hollows of the palms of the pedestrians springing in hauteur, with creaking sound of the chariots reeling forth like gharghara rumble of the clouds, with divisions of the eight quarters darkened by the circles of clouds in the form of thousands of arrays of tuskers showering forth sprays of water of ichor.'
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After the conferment of boon fulfilling the desire of Meghavahana by Śrī, the king came to his regnal abode and while he was touring Ayodhya for inspection noon tide came about and the overlord of the lotuses (i.c. the Sun) mounted the middle of the sky i.e. became more sultry?. The noon tide approached as if anxious to express his own grievances being tormented by the rays of the torrid hot rayed one i.e. the Sun. The lord of the lotuses (i.c. the Sun) mounted the middle of the sky having resolved in mind for an ablution in the heavenly Ganges, with his chariot being steered by Aruna quite steadily with clusters of flowers in the form of stars blown forth, having made a search on the peak of the trees of the Eastern Horizon whitened up early in the morning with green Kuśas uprooted with efforts."
Meghavahana saw in a dream the elephant, the vehicle of Surendra (i.e. Indra) suckling milk drawing it again and again with his trunk having a lotus apparently placed on the pitcher like breasts, at the time when the glooms of nocturnal hours were tinged with the hue of twilight having clusters of bees anointed with the mire of honey, hovering about here and there having moved away from the sky as if it were the lotus with hollows. of its interior becoming blown up with leaves or petals in the form of eight quarters closing up in order; when the quarter creepers were deserting incessantly the group of stellars as if it were the network of drops of water of dew got into the petals formed out of the bits of darkness thinning down
1. TM. Vol. I, pp. 60-70. p. 69. LL. 4-6. p. 70. LL. 1-3
2. Ibid. Vol. II, p. 164. LL. 1-8
3. Ibid. Vol. II, pp. 164-165. p. 164. LL. 8. p. 165. LL. 1-2.