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The Indian Historical Quarterly June 1943

1943

One of these the Malati-mddhaval gives a ficttious romantic love-story of middle-class life and the other two the Mahivira-carite and the Uttara-rarna-carita ' deal respectively with the earlier and the later history of Rama and derive their theme from the Rarnayana. [...] The main plot moves round the love of Madhava a young student and Mdlati daughter of a cabinet minister; it is thwarted by the interposition of a powerful suitor in Nandana nominated by the king; but it ends with achievement of success partly through accidents and partly through the diplomacy of a shrewd resourceful and kind-hearted Buddhist nun " KimandaCd a friend and class-mate of the fa [...] The episodes of the two abductions of Malati hardly arise out of the story but they are added to satisfy the sensational craving for the teribble and the gruesome and to fill the whole of act ix and a part of act x with the grief and lamentation of the hapless Madhava separated from his beloved in the approved manner of a man in viraha. [...] The picture of Malati tossed between love and duty and reluctantly yielding to a stolen marriage or the description of the first dawning of the passion in Madhava and its effect on his youthful mind is in the best manner of the poet and is much superior to what one finds normally in Sanskrit sentimental literature. [...] The seed of dramat.c conflict and movement is found a suitor by the rejection of his messenger and Ravana's desire for is further inflamed demons at the hands is by the diplomacy of Ravana's valiant minister Malyavat which includes the crafty instigation by him of Paragurdma and the despatch of Siirpariakha in the clever disguise of the nurse Manthara the second episode ingeniously exonerating K
history
Pages
113
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Narendra Law view
Bhavabhūti
101-118 S.K De. view
Nālānda Seals of Budhagupta and Visnugupta
119-125 A. Ghosh view
The Second Struggle of Bhīma and his friend Hari in the Rāmacaritam
126-138 N.K. Bhattasali view
Pīpardūlā Copper-Plate Inscription of King Narendra of Sarabhapura
139-iii unknown view
Metrical and Grammatical Lapses due to the Imposition of Rules of modern Grammar and Prosody on Rks
147-155 V.K Rajwade view
The Dynastic Chronicles of Kashmir
156-172 U.N Ghoshal view
Tamil Śaiva Mystic Poets in Medieval South India
173-178 V.R Dikshitar view
Śabdabhedaprakāsatikā by Jfiānavimalagani(Composed in A.D. 1598)
179-181 M.M. Patkar view
Siege and Surrender of Ranthambhor 1569 A. D
181-183 Dasaratha Sharma view
Hyder Ali’s Appeal to the Honble East India Co. 1764
184-187 K.Sajan Lal view
A New Reference to the Gunapataka
187-187 H.G Narahari view
Seals of an unknown Dynasty from Nālandā
188-189 A. Ghosh view
Reviews
190-195 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
196-200 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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