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Hanuman Nataka (critical study)

by Nurima Yeasmin | 2015 | 41,386 words

This page relates ‘The character of Mandodari� of the English study on the Hanuman-nataka written by Shri Damodara Mishra in the 11th century. The Hanumannataka is a Mahanataka—a fourteen-act Sanskrit drama dealing with the story of Rama and Hanumat (Hanuman) and presents the events in the lifes of Rama, Sita, Ravana and Hanuman (the son of Anjana and Vayu—the God of the Winds) based on the Ramayana story.

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9.10. The character of ѲԻǻ岹ī

ѲԻǻ岹ī, the queen-wife of 屹ṇa, is a devoted wife of her husband. Sensual though she is, she distinguishes herself from the others by her critical attitude towards her husband’s abduction of ī in which she is prompted by her concern for the welfare of her husband. Her persuasion of 屹ṇa to hand over ī does not so much breathe the spirit of jealousy alone, though see feels offended by 屹ṇa’s passion for ī to the neglect of herself, who is “far superior to ī in rank, beauty and kindness�.[1] But it was the spirit of an anxious concern for 屹ṇa as her husband. However, she is flesh and blood of 屹ṇa, for though in her piteous lamentation at the death of her husband she deplores his sinful act of abducting ī, an embodiment of virtue and his relentless wrath, which did not allow him to listen to her well-wishing words, as the cause of his and the ṣadestruction. She is convinced of the greatness of her husband. ѲԻǻ岹ī is thus a devoted and passionate wife of 屹ṇa anxiously concerned for his welfare, yet flesh and blood of his mentality.[2]

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[1]:

na kulena na rūpeṇa na dākṣinyena ٳ󾱱ī/
mayādhikā vā ٳܱ vā tva� tu mohānna budhyase// ibid.,V.16

[2]:

mandodari (첹ṇa)�
śǰ첹� laṅkeśa! mā gāḥkuru ciramapunarbhāvi gādopyuḍa�/
ñ� dehi ǻ� samaramavatarāmyasmi sukṣṭriyā yat// ibid., XIV. 7

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