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The motif of the boon is pressed into service is twice in the Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala: (1) Firstly, the one/conferred on King Meghavahana by the goddess sri; (2) Senondly, the other is grated to Harivahana by the mystic Vidyas. n (i) When the childless King Meghavahana successfully undertakes the worship of the goddess Sri, she confers a a boon on the king granting him his cherished wish for a male child. The boon is invariably preceded by a severe test which entails the sacrifice of one's life. The boon symbolizes the sublimation of the human to the superhuman plane. It has its repercussions on the physical human plane in the form of the birth of Harivahana and magic effect on the attacking forces of Samaraketu. (ii) Another boon is the one granted by the presidig presiding goddess of the mystic Vidyas like Prajnapti,

the 323 Rohini, and others. In case of this boon also there is a test of Harivahana who is subjected to innumerable temptations, both physical and psychological, for the period of six months. The successful completion of this penance elavates Harivahana from the human plane to the superhuman one, qualifying him, on the one hand, for the emperorship of the Vidyadharas and, on the other hand, for the hand of the Vidyadhara Princess Tilakamanjari. THE MOTIF OF THE BANE, ie. the curse, is utilized once only in connection # with the transgression of the sacred pricincts of the Jain temple. Gandharvaka, heavily worried in search of medicinal plant for counteracting the effect of the poisonous fruit, unknowingly flies in an aeroplane from over the temple of Lord Mahavira on the Ratnakuta mountain. His aeroplane is stopped abruptly by the guardian Yaksa Mahodara in charge of the protection of the temple. The rashness of impatient Gandharvaka invites a heavy curse, transforming him into a parrot. At the same time Mahodara throws away the aeroplane to a far off place, which, fortunately, is the Adrstapara lake. But, though a bane to Gandharvaka, this curse actually proves to be a boon to both Harivahana and Malayasundari, in that the latter is first transported from the earthly hermitage of Kulapati santatapa to the heavenly region of

324 the Kaia Vaitadhyan range; and Harivahana's message is carried to Kamalagupta and the latter's reply brought back to the former, by the parrot in the nick of time saving the life of Bamaraketu.