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LITERARY EVALUATION 589 Thus the side stories are like the sauces which keep up the appetite
of the reader for the main-story, and the highest value of them lies in
their motto of imparting some moral instructions to the people. Finally
it is also true that the religious discourses intervening at some places
hamper the free-flow of the narrative but it should not be forgotten
that our work is called a Pur膩峁嘺 or a Carita and the introducing of
religious discourses in such a work is a conventional style of the ancient
literature.
E. Characterisation :
Generally in the Pur膩峁嘺s episodes or events hold the first place
while the participant characters are kept in the background, but the
author of our work has paid due attention to characterisation. The
characters of the PCV are somewhat differently moulded than those of
the VR. We find that they are ennobled and are more plausible on
account of generally being disconnected with the elements of supersti-
tion. Kaikey of the PCV is no more a wicked and selfish woman. She
is only a frail human being tossed by natural desires and affection.
Ravana here is not a downright villain. The Vanaras are not monkeys
in the literal sense of the term. They are a tribe having monkey as
their state-emblem. Similarly the R膩k峁�asas are not fabulously ferocious
and grotesque in appearance. They also are a race of ordinary human
beings with war-like spirit. R膩vana is one headed. Kumbhakarna is
Indra is not a celestial lord. He
religious, not diabolical by nature.
There is nothing
is the lord of the Vidyadharas, a human race.
supernatural about the birth of Sugr墨va, Bali and Hanumat They are
born just like human beings. S墨t膩 is not here born in any supernatural
way. She is born of Videh膩, the wife of Janaka. Thus we find that
the characters in the PCV are plausible and devoid of any element of
superstition. It is this due attention on the part of the poet, paid to
characterisation that raises the PCV above a simple traditional Pur膩峁嘺
and takes it to the plane of a work of art. Now we shall deal with the
important characters of the PCV individuall y.
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R膩ma R膩ma is the hero of the PCV as he is of the VR and the
other Rama-epics. He is a dh铆rod膩tta character, brave and generous,
patient and firm in adverse situations, endowed with divine virtues
and extraodinary prowess.
The R膩ma of the PCV and the R膩ma
of the VR are mostly alike but in the PCV there are points where
R膩ma rises above the R膩ma of the VR. In the PCV R膩ma accepts
exile voluntarily to remove the scruples of Bharata who does not accept
the throne considering that it will be an onslaught on the legitimate