Tilakamanjari

SR No.: 022659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 504
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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TILAKAMAÑJARI OF DHANAPALA
While describing Ayodhyā he illustrates a hyperbole til suddaufgiftit drfor hamutarea that Ayodhyā was, as it were, an ear-penduncle (of Bhāratavarşa), gleaming with round luscious leaves of a lotus.
"मनोरथानामपि दुर्विलंघेनप्लवमानकरिमकरकुम्भीरभीषणोर्मिणा जलप्रतिबिम्बितप्राकारच्छलेन जलराशिशंकया मैनाकमन्वेष्टुमन्त:प्रविष्टहिमवतेव महता खातवलेयेन वेष्टिता।
that Ayodhyā was engirt round by a huge moat as if Himālaya had entered into it with a view to searching out Maināka, apprehensive as he were of the ocean, under the pretext of the rampart reflected inside its water having its surges violent with Hippopotamuses, alligators, aquatic boars dipping into it.
*51424TfUgaffaelaga RHEN: Jam i.e. It had royal swans hovering over it as they hovered over the Krauñca Mount.
'मृदुपवनचलितमृद्विकालतावलयेषु वियति विलसतामसितागुरुधूपधूमयोनीनामासारalfuglufi r ittura El afiat facilf14441194YHIGHET I i.e. It had drinking revelries or carousals being enjoyed by the gallants in their domestic orchards. It had been chaperoned on her out precincts by the stream named Sarayū stationed there with a view to inquiring about the account of the (descent from the heavens of the sons of Sagara consumed by the fuel of fire in the form of the wrath of Kapila, with her sides never deserted by the royal swans as if by the old chamberlains sent to her by the Eastern ocean'. Her natural environments were beautified by the saplings or small gardens as if they were her forehead marks formed out of collyrium tint made apparent on them (Ayodhyā has been visualised as maiden)'. She had mirrors in the form of lakes?. In the spring season it appeared as if adomishing the Purī named Alakā that had lent opportunity to Sūlapāņi ( i.e. Siva) for the great sin of consuming the shark bannered god (Makaradhvaja) by means of the flags made of ruddy silk cloths etc.); "where in the merited souls did not feel any anxiety for the lower storeys surrounded by orchards
1. TM Vol. I. p. 43. LL. 2-3 2. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 44. LL. 1-3 3. TM. Vol. I, p. 44. LL. 3-4 4. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 46. LL. 5-6 5. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 47. LL. 1-4 5. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 53. LL. 4-5 7. Ibid. LL. 5 8. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 56. LL. 6-7