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

चतुर्थोऽङ्कः 413
incident of the imprisonment and disappearance of the heroine.
This विमर्शसन्धि is very short.
But the inventive genius of the poet ingeniously clarifies the
situation by introducing the magician who with the secret direc-
tion of Yaugandharāyaṇa produced an illusion of fire in the
palace which caused an alarm in all, including Vāsavadattā who
forgetting everything of the past, implored the King to save
Sāgarikā whom she had imprisoned within the palace and
whom she apprehended to be consumed in the fire (एसा क्खु मए
णिग्घिणाए इध णिअडेण संजमिदा साअरिका विवज्जदि । ता तं परित्ताअदु अज्जउत्तो )
The King got the opportunity and delivered her from the
fire which was a false (i. e., magical) one. Vasubhuti, the
Simhalese minister, who after being rescued from the ship-
wreck had thought Ratnāvalī to be lost and who then joined
the army of Rumaṇvān in his expedition to Kosala, accidentally
arrived at that very moment to see the Vatsa-King with a
view to get consoled, and found Sāgarikā alive there. But for
the introduction of the magician, the union would have been
a haphazard one; so the episode of the magician has brought
about the susccessful termination of the plot. After the
deliverance of Sāgarikā from the fire by the King, all the
matters point to the successful end of the drama, and all
diverging points scattered throughout the drama, point to
the final end i. e., the union of the hero and the heroine.
Here is the conclusion of the निर्वहणसन्धि which is defined as —
“बीजवन्तो मुखाद्यर्था विप्रकीर्णा यथायथम् ।
एकार्थमुपनीयन्ते यत्र निर्वहणं हि तत् ॥” सा० द० ६।८०-८१
The concluding speech of यौगन्धरायण with the King discloses
how all the incidents manipulated throughout the Drama
merged into one point i. e., the union which is aimed
at in the subject-matter of the Drama. In Act IV which