Kadambari : novel by Bāṇabhaṭṭa (q.v.). It is a prose romance, involving a narrative within a narrative related to a king by a parrot. Kādambari is remarkable for the freshness with which it deals with the emotion of love. Left unfinished by the author, it was completed by his son. It is a classic of Sanskrit literature.
... waist cloth, turban and some jewellery, he stands as the very picture of energy. All these princes had a hall of exercises attached to the palace where they were able to exercise daily. In Bana's "Kadambari", we have a vivid description of the kind of education that was imparted to the princes. He tells us that King Tarapida of Ujjain had a "palace of learning" built for his son, the prince Chandrapida ...
... of perceiving beforehand, while reading, what is immediately to follow, even without sufficient data, yet accurately, is also reviving & manifesting itself more decisively than before. Today the "Kadambari" was read, no longer with the ordinary (intellectually intuitive) linguistic faculties at their highest working, but with these faculties not so swift, yet aided by the extraordinary or vijnanamaya ...
... sometimes in possession, but not yet masters except in the suddhi, bhukti & mukti (the latter most imperfect of the three). Yesterday by a sudden opening of faculty Sanscrit prose, even of the Kadambari type, which was until the last reading difficult to understand, troublesome & wearying to the brain, has become perfectly easy & intelligible at the first reading without labour. A similar result ...
... "July 13 th . Ananda Mimansa 1 begun last night; the first adhyaya 2 completed this morning. "July 14 th . Yesterday by a sudden opening of faculty Sanscrit prose, even of the Kadambari 3 type, which was until the last reading difficult to understand, troublesome & wearying to the brain, has become perfectly easy & intelligible at the first reading without labour. A similar result ...
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