Rasarnavasudhakara 3.99

3.99

tatrābhūtāharaṇam-
abhūtāharaṇam tat syād vākyaṃ yat kapaṭāśrayam ||

Among them, the fabrication of the unreal (abhūtāharaṇa):
Fabrication of the unreal is that statement which is grounded in deceit.

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yayā tatraiva [bāla-rāmāyaṇe] unmatta-daśānana-nāmani pañcamāṅke mālyavān (hasitvā)-vṛddha-buddhir hi prathamaṃ paśyati caramaṃ kāryam | yan mayā dhūrjaṭi-dhanur-adhikṣepataḥ prabhṛti mati-cakṣuṣā dṛṣṭam eva yad uta daśakandharo' nusandhāsyati sītā-haraṇam |

As in the very same work, in the fifth act titled "Unmatta-Daśānana", Mālyavān says (laughing): "An old man's intellect indeed foresees the final outcome at the very beginning. For it was seen by me with the eye of intellect from the time of the insult to Dhūrjaṭi's bow that the Ten-necked one would set his mind on the abduction of Sītā."

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māyā-mayaḥ : tatas tataḥ ?

Māyāmaya says: "What then? What then?"

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mālyavān: tataś ca mayā mandodarī-pitur māyā-guror mayasya prathama-śiṣyo viśārada-nāmā yantra-kāraḥ sa-bahumānaṃ niyuktaḥ sītā-pratikṛti-karaṇāya | viracitā ca sā rāvaṇopacchandanārtham | abhihitaṃ ca-

Mālyavān says: "And then, the foremost pupil of Maya, the master of illusion and father of Mandodarī, an artisan named Viśārada, was respectfully engaged by me to make an effigy of Sītā. And it was crafted to deceive Rāvaṇa. And it was said: