Category: Novels
The story of Kadambari is interesting for several reasons. It is a standard example of classical prose; it has enjoyed a long popularity as a romance; and it is one of the comparatively few Sanskrit works which can be assigned to a certain date, and so it can serve as a landma...
The story of Kadambari is interesting for several reasons. It is a standard example of classical prose; it has enjoyed a long popularity as a romance; and it is one of the compa...
2. Part 2The unsettled chronology of Indian literature makes it impossible to work out at present Bana's relations with other Sanskrit writers. Professor Peterson, [21] indeed, makes som...
3. Part 3Then the portress, immediately on the king's order, ushered in the Candala maiden. And she entered and beheld the king in the midst of a thousand chiefs, like golden-peaked Meru...
4. Part 4'There is a forest, by name Vindhya, that embraces the shores of the eastern and western ocean, and decks the central region as though it were the earth's zone. (39) It is beaut...
5. Part 5(61) 'And in the midst of that great host of Çabaras I beheld the Çabara leader, Matanga by name. He was yet in early youth; from his great hardness he seemed made of iron; he w...
6. Part 6(85-89, condensed) 'There, beneath the shade of a red açoka-tree, beauteous with new oblations of flowers, purified with ointment of fresh gomaya, garlanded with kuça grass and...
7. Part 7'"And it chanced once that, going to her dwelling, he beheld her seated on a stately [211] couch, weeping bitterly, surrounded by her household mute in grief, their glances fixe...
8. Part 8'"And so in due course the king, learning that Candrapida had grown to youth, and had completed his knowledge of all the arts, studied all the sciences, and won great praise fro...
9. Part 9'"And in these doings of his the day came to a close; the sun's orb fell with lifted rays like the ruby anklet--its interstices veiled in its own light--of the Glory of Day, as...
10. Part 10'"Some days later, on an auspicious day, the king, surrounded by a thousand chiefs, raised aloft, with Çukanasa's help, the vessel of consecration, and himself anointed his son,...
11. Part 11(258) '"But, seated in a posture of meditation, to the right of the god, facing him, Candrapida beheld a maiden vowed to the service of Çiva, who turned the region with its moun...
12. Part 12(282) '"'Then I saw a wondrous spray of flowers which decked his ear, like the bright smile of woodland Çri joying in the sight of spring, or the grain-offering of the honey-mon...
13. Part 13'"'"It was in thy presence that I sternly rebuked Pundarika, and after that speech I left him in anger and went to another place, leaving my task of gathering flowers. After thy...
14. Part 14'"'Taralika accompanied me, holding powders, perfumes, unguents, betel, and various flowers, and I had also that napkin, wet with the sandal ointment which had been applied in m...
15. Part 15'"From the very first Candrapida had been filled with reverence by her beauty, modesty, and courtesy; by the charm of her speech, her unselfishness and her austerity; and by her...
16. Part 16(366) '"And as he thus thought his eye met hers, and she, thinking, 'This is he of whom Keyuraka spoke,' let her glance, widened by wonder at his exceeding beauty, dwell long an...
17. Part 17[305]'"Then, turning his eyes in the direction of the light, he beheld Kadambari, and with her Madalekha and Taralika bearing a pearl necklace on a tray covered with white silk....
18. Part 18'"At these words, Candrapida, all eager to depart, shouted: 'A horse! a horse!' and left the palace. Indrayudha was hastily saddled, and brought round by the grooms, and Candrap...
19. Part 19'"'A sweet joy filled me as I heard her say this, and I thought, (437) "Surely Love has led her far in her feelings for Candrapida. If this indeed be true, he shows in visible f...
20. Part 20'(534) And when the time came, Vilasavati bade him farewell in deep sorrow: "I grieved not so for thy first going as I do now. My heart is torn; my body is in torture; my mind i...
21. Part 21(589) 'After many days, Queen Vilasavati, in her deep longing for news of her son, went to the temple of the Divine Mothers of Avanti, [345] the guardian goddesses of Ujjayini,...
22. Part 22The light-hearted race that dwell there, like the moon on the locks of Çiva, spread their glory [361] through all the earth, and have their horn filled with plenty; [362] like M...
23. Part 23[159] Lit., (a) He had a body wasted by secret performance of penance; (b) he brought to nought the enemies' plans of battle by secret counsel and by his army.