INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY – SANSKRIT POETICS
even dies. Kapinjala indeed is made to accuse the
mother of Pundarika for his amorous infatuation and
death, swoon of love.
The life that follows, namely Vaisampayana, as
is a son of a brahman minister, a lesser status than that
of the previous. Love lowers him in the scale. He
again falls because of his memory of the woman, a
vague memory, a supreme principle of smrti; and again
pays with his life. The life of the parrot is the result.
The parrot is also granted smrti by the Grace of the
Rishi Jabali but release is yet distant. The smrti causes
the parrot to seek to return to its former love. But the
Mother Lakshmi comes and rescues the parrot, her own
son Pundarika. The mother or Prakrti, reminds the
author, has been performing a Yajna with the Great
sage Svetaketu (the Purusha) for the redeeming of their
child. In the Samkhyan system, the prakrti is also the
releaser. But the author of the Kadambari gives a new
turn, the soul is rescued by the Mother and the primal
Purusha. Mother is at once the binder and creator and
releaser. But there is enrichment of the created soul
though it had to go through terrific pangs of separation
and frustrated love. The moral of the story again is
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