Tilakamanjari

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

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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
with the cries of the peacocks dancing in hilarity without a cease; having the tumult of the linns (i.e. the springs) unceasing in its borders, circumbulated by the currents of celestial stream (i.e. the Ganges) having pedestals of charming bejewelled rocks prepared at every spot by the hermits abiding in hermitages established situate to it with a view to accomplishing the act of concentration, gorgeous with the shoals expansive and white and having waters unfathomable, having auspicious ditties strained forth ceaselessly by the Siddha Couples in the groups of shrines of the Siddhas adjacent to the plateaus darkened on all sides by the sylvan arrays deeply green with open space stretched overhead, having rendered diminutive the ethereal region by the heights of its peaks.' Mounted on the Ekaśộnga and marching on Samaraketu saw on a summer day a lake named Adrstapāra that had its out precincts quite expansive that was being indicated from afar by the breeze wafted from water quite fresh as if by a herd of wild tuskers got up from water quite afresh, with quarters besprinkled with sprays of strong showers and lotuses fresh and tremulous with the arrays of ripples splashed ceaselessly; that was surrounded on all sides by a contravallation close to the sky scraping peak, formed into a circle under the pressure of churning as if by the form of lord of the serpents (Vāsuki), darkened by the sylvan arrays bearing semblance of the circles of clouds quiet being laden with water, infested with wild beasts sleeping at ease by drinking its water, having litters on swings of creepers being undulated by pert apes, having their branches breaking loose by the draggings with their trunks by the elephant cubs, having inebriate cranes reclining on the region of their tops tumultuous with the noise of the cries of the peacocks prone to hilarity, raised aloft by the Hades, as if they were the rows of gloom, bearing the gleam of the clusters of hair of the maidens of kuntala flushing with youth, being thoroughly spaccless or terse.
It (i.e. the lake) was as if the water-basin brimming with water, of the creeper of the triad of worlds; the umbilical orb as it were having its interior over-shadowed by the series of gleams, the sliver plaited mirror meant for sport, as it were, of the quarters; a reflective index or the image, as it were, of the surface of the sky; the canopy made of silk meant for dalliance, as it
1. अथास्ति पश्चिमेनाष्टपदशैलमनतिदूरवर्ती वैताढ्यपर्वतस्य, शिखरोच्छ्रायखर्वितान्तरिक्षतो, नितान्तविततावकाशः, शिरस्निग्धहरिताभिः सर्वत एवान्धकारितो वनलेखामिः अनुमेखलं सिद्धायतनमण्डलेषु सिद्धमिथुनैः सततारब्धमङ्गलनीतिभिः अमाधमलिलेन-सितविशालबालूकापुत्तिनलनिशालिना समाधिसुरवसाधनाय संनिधानाशमनिवासिभिस्तापस:स्थमस्थानरचितचारुमणिशिलावेदिकेन त्रिदशसिन्धुस्रोतसा परिगतः, प्रान्तेष्वविश्रान्तनिर्झरनिनादो, नित्यमुदितनृत्यन्मयूररुतमुखरितसंख्यकन्दरो लतामन्दिरच्छन्नसुन्दरानेकसानूरेकशृङ्गो नाम fyraft TM. Vol. III, p. 69. LL. 3-8 L.D. Seves cd. para 159 p. 117 LL. 25-31.