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In the eighth chapter we have already seen how the poet has skillfully blended the main plot with the by- -plot and how the latter serves as a contrasing background of the former. We have also seen therein how different motifs

900 have been purposefully utilized to enhance the interest in the the narrative. Again, in the fourth section of the fifteenth chapter we have discussed how the poet has exhibited his 鈻� skill in sustaining the suspense right upto the end of the story. Dhanapala has taken special care to make his story convincing and coherent. Through the structure confirms to the technique of boxing tales within tales, this technique has been utilized for the purpose of changing the focus alternately from the main plot to the by-plot and vice versa. The element of accident and mystery has been carefully employed to add to the effect of surprise, though a fully rational and convincing explanation has been put forth in proper place so that the accident or the mystery does not remain a pure accident or a pure mystery in the end. This can easily be seen in the incidents of the Vetala, the flying elephant, the cursed parrot and the magic mantle, to take a few specimens. Nor is the poet's philosophy of life as 鈻� embodied in the story-theme unconvincing since it never intrudes upon the narrative interest and has been introduced only on highly appropriate occasions when the concerned characters undergo a spell of unimaginable or unexpected hardships or listen to such experiences of others. The moral of the story is thus poetically subordinated to the narrative interest and action so that the preacher in Dhanapala never gets the better of

901 the poet in him. And the beginning of the story of god Jvalanaprabha about the E to descend from heaven naturally culminates into the last birth of him as Harivahana, his attainment of the emperorship of the Vidyadharas, and consequent line-clear for his journey towards Final Emancipation. The episodes, likewise, are quite pursuasive and not simply pasted on to the story. The birth of Harivahana, his love at first sight on seeing the portrait of Tilakamanjari, than the latter's aversion to males, the miserable life of the pair of Samaraketu and Malayasundari, the flying elephant, the attempts at suicide by various characters, the cursed parrot, the attainment of Vidyadharahood and emperorship of the Vidyadharas by Harivahana, the identity og Gandharvadatta and all such episodes are so tightly woven in the texture of the narrative that even if one of them is dropped the story would lose its logical frame and effect. And rational explanation of things mysterious is one of the characteristic peculiarities of Dhanapala.