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

460 रत्नावली to be loved by the king whom she knows, though he does not, to be destined by her father as her husband. Susangatá...is a pleasant merry girl who makes excellent fun of her mistress. The Vidushaka...is typical for his greediness, but his figure lacks comic force ; he is, however, a pleasant enough character, for his love for his master is genuine ; he is prepared to die with him...though he thinks his action in rushing into the fire quixotic. The magician is an amusing and clever sketch of great pretentions allied to some juggling skill.... Harsha is fond of descriptions in the approved manner.... In imagination and grace he is certainly inferior to Kálidása, but he possesses the great merit of simplicity of expression and thought ; His Sanskrit is classical and precise ; his use of figures of speech and thought restrained and in good taste. There is fire in his description of a battle ( IV. 6 ). The matching of the sound to the sense is admirable, while a delicate perception is evinced in the line describing the king's success in soothing the wounded queen (IV. 1). Pretty...is the king's address to the fire (IV. 16). There is excellent taste in Vatsa's address to the dead Kosala king. Such a phrase may reveal to us the true Harsha himself, the winner of many victories and the hero of one great disaster. Harsha's Sanskrit is of the usual classical type, eschewing any deviation from the beaten paths, and his Prakrits, mainly Shaura- seni with Maháráshtri in verses, offer nothing of special inter- est, beyond evidence of his careful study of Prakrit grammar.