Chapter 16 - The Tilakamanjari as a Sanskrit novel

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Vaimānika god Sumālī, 309,
who deserts her to dally with ano-
310 ther goddess Svayaṃprabhā. She also builds a Jain temple
of Lord Mahāvīra Jina on the Ratnakūta island in the Southe-
rn Ocean, and awaits the arrival of her beloved till her
heavenly life-span is exhausted; but during the last moments
of her life she loses faith in the promise of the omniscient
Jain saint and as a result undergoes ■ numerous hardships
in her next birth as Malayasundari. 311 of ■ course, her cha-
ritable good turns of building a Jain temple coupled with
her abstinence in strict ascetic life and devout worship of
Lord Mahāvīra stands in good stead in her next birth and
ultimately enables her to get united with her beloved in the
form of Samarakety.
(V) SPEECHES
AND
DIALOGUES :-
312 Dialogue in a story, opines Kobald Knight, must
be crisp, to the point, and not too longwinded, and it must
always be in keeping ■ with the character. It must lend an
illusion of being a faithful reproduction of human speech.
The forms of sentences and paragraphs should be varied. Like
description, it must mingle with the action of the story
and never stay that action. At the same time, a story must
not be all dialogue, obviously, or it becomes a kind of play
rather than a story. But dialogue may be introduced frequent-
309. TM(N),407(14-15).
311. ibid.,p.409(16-17); 410(12-13).
312. Gui.Fict.Wr.,pp.102-105.
/ 310. ibid.,p.407(14); 40 (18
(8-16).