रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

RATNAVALI
Act II
Notes
In Act I after the बीजोपन्यास the collocation of different
incidents helps the main plot to proceed in its way to develop-
ment in the subsequent Acts. So, the love that has germinated
in Ságariká's mind (Act I) at the very first sight of the King,
comes to be intensified in Act, II when the meeting of the
King with Ságariká is brought about. The प्रतिमुखसन्धि with its
different constituent parts (अङ्ग) is worked out in this Act. One
of the different incidents that bring about the meeting of the
hero with the heroine and effect the intensity 'of love growing
in each other's mind, is the episode of the Sáriká, a pet talking
bird of the Queen, that was given in charge of Ságariká.
This bird plays no insignificant part in the drama, for she
attracts the King and the Jester to the plantain-bower when
Susangatá brings about the first formal meeting of the two
P. 108 सारिकापञ्जर etc.—Busily occupied with the cage of the
starling in her hand. In Act I, we understand from Ságariká
that the starling (given by the Queen in her charge) was
left by Ságariká with Susangatá while she went to attend
the Cupid-worship where she saw the King for the first time.
अनन्यसदृशः—Adj. to प्रभावः। न अन्यसदृशः ( नञ्तत् ), अन्यस्य सदृशः